Safe Cruises on the Baltic Sea

Background of the project

Crime victims age 2007 - 2010

14-1924%

20-24 40%

25-29 9%

30-34 9%

35-39 8%

40-49 6%

50+ 4%

14-19

20-24

25-29

30-34

35-39

40-49

50+

24 Months 2011 May - 2013 April

Project budget: 830 255 EuroERDF - founding: 602 778 Euro

Management, Co-ordination and Structure

Signed partners• Stockholm County Police/ City

Police Area• Varsianis-Suomen

Policedepartment• Police authority of Åland • Police and Border Guard Board,

North Prefecture, Estonia. • STAD (Stockholm prevents

alcohol and drug problems)

In Co-operation with;

• Swedish Transport Agency

•Tallink - Silja AB

•Birka Line Svenska AB / Ecerölinjen AB

•Viking Line AB

•Valvira

Overall outputs and results !

• A long-term and sustainable reduction of the rapes on the Baltic Sea

• Safer cruises - more travellers

• An improved cross-border Police investigative work

• Develop and communicate a common vision of the supervision work of serving alcohol on the ships in the Baltic Sea.

Work Packages

Crime Prevention

Cross-Border Investigations

Joint vision of Supervision of serving alcohol

Crime Prevention

STAD Stockholm prevents Alcohol and Drug

problems

•STAD- started in 1995, a section within Centre for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institute/Stockholm County Council Health Care Provision

• Activities within the alcohol and drug prevention field – identifying, testing and evaluating promising alcohol and drug prevention methods. Prevention interventions (environment)

The goal

• Educate key personal in RBS

• Create a manual for in-house training based on experience of the staff.

Develop and communicate a common vision of the supervision work of serving alcohol on the ships in the

Baltic Sea.

Joint vision of Supervision of serving alcohol

•Common safety rules

•A joint alcohol policy.

•Zero tolerance of disorder in the cabins.

•“Harbour action plan”

Achievement of agreements with the companies today;

Intoxication?

Cross-Border Investigations

Strategic focus:

Develop the joint work concerning cross-border investigation

Planned results

• Developed methods for cross-border investigations.

• Improved first investigative action on the ferries when a crime is committed.

• A network of contacts among the authorities and shipping companies.

Outputs

•Instruction cards for the personnel on the ferries

• An action plan concerning “the first investigation step”

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