TIRANA, June 22 /ATA/ Deputy Director General of the State Police, Albert Dervishaj, participated on Wednesday in the opening ceremony of the project “Stop Drugs-Healthy Youth,” funded by the Albanian Youth Congress, in partnership with the Municipality of Tirana as part of the program “Tirana European Youth Capital 2022. “
In his address, Dervishaj focused on community policing, which consists in preventing or combating a wide range of problems and addresses all segments of the community, including the education of children and young people.
“Not only anti-drug education, but also road safety, cybercrime, firearms or other weapons, dealing with violence or other forms of unacceptable behavior that undoubtedly reduce crime and victimization among youth. Education of young people, which requires a tailored approach, has been reflected not only in the main acts of the State Police but also in the organizational and cultural transformation of the police organization,” he added.
In this regard, Dervishaj stressed that strategies and action plans have been drafted in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Sports, institutions, various organizations and international partners.
He stressed that during 2021, about 400 awareness meetings were held with the participation of other state institutions at the central and local level, leaders, representatives and students of schools, etc.
“In 2020, in the State Police, a structure with specialists for education and work with young people has been set up to educate students with the rules of the road traffic, the negative effects of alcohol, smoking, drugs, the risk of weapons or other phenomena building mutual trust with students and teaching staff, in order to prevent the involvement of young people in criminal activities and increase security in educational institutions,” he said.
Dervishaj added that “in order to identify and prevent the risk of radicalization and violent extremism in the first steps, all the heads of the Community Policing Section were trained by the Coordination Center Against Violent Extremism, with the support of the ICITAP and OSCE program. ”
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