2023-2024 / Inter-university certificate

Urban security policy management

11 crédits

Cycle view

  • Bloc
  • Organisation
  • Théorie
  • Pratique
  • Autres
  • Crédits

Certificate organised in partnership with the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Université de Namur.
Study programme :

1) Definition of the framework
- Definition of the concept of security and insecurity
- The issue of indicators
- Indicators for assessment
- The difficulty of assessment
- Final training assignment (joint elaboration of a local security policy)

Teachers: Vincent FRANCIS (UCL), Vincent SERON (ULg), Martin MOUCHERON (UCL).

2) Stakeholders and places
- Role play 1 (the participants/actors receive sheets with cleaved and contradictory profiles)
- Create map of security stakeholders
- Role play 2 (identification of problem areas and possible solutions)
- Final training assignment: my position in the field, the position of the other stakeholders and the interactions linking us

Teachers: Etienne GAUBLOMME, Martin MOUCHERON (UCL), Ingrid VERHOEVEN.

3) The law as a strategy
- The legal instruments of security
- Final training assignment

Teachers: Nathalie BASECQZ (UNamur), Marc NIHOUL (UNamur), Etienne GAUBLOMME.

4)The strategies
- Assessment of the strategies: informed catalogue of the assessed strategies
- Close look at each of these strategies with a focus on good practices: what is done, what works, what doesn't work
- Final training assignment: themes defined for the groups for their final training assignment

Teachers: Vincent FRANCIS (UCL), Christian DE VALKENEER (UCL), Vincent SERON (ULg), Bernard DECLEVE.

5) Common thread: order in the public space
- Drugs

Teacher : Etienne GAUBLOMME

- Prostitution

Teacher : Michaël DANTINNE (ULg)

- Begging

Teachers: Marc NIHOUL (UNamur), Christian DE VALKENEER (UCL), Vincent SERON (ULg), Martin MOUCHERON (UCL), Ingrid VERHOEVEN.

- Road traffic

Teacher : Michaël DANTINNE (ULg).

- Incivilities and crime

Teachers: Vincent FRANCIS (UCL), Vincent SERON (ULg).

6) Residential weekend
- Managerial and communication aspects (strategy and marketing)
- Knowing how to communicate
* with the other stakeholders involved in conceiving security plans
* with the beneficiaries

Teachers: Etienne GAUBLOMME, Vincent FRANCIS (UCL), Martin MOUCHERON (UCL), Christian DE VALKENEER (UCL).