Cooperation Unit for Crime Prevention

Contact and service point

The cooperation office aims to build and strengthen a transparent network of security partners from the public and private sectors, and to support and promote crime prevention work, security partnerships and prevention councils at the local level.

It sees itself as a contact and service center and addresses all stakeholders interested in crime prevention. The KSKP offers diverse support in the areas of networking, information gathering, training, fundraising, evaluation, communication, and public relations.

Service offerings

The cooperation office sees itself as a contact and service point, offering all stakeholders diverse support in the areas of networking, information gathering, training, fundraising, evaluation, communication and public relations.

• Help and tips for setting up prevention committees
• Public relations
• Fundraising
• Evaluation
• Continuing education

Project funding

One of the central tasks of the Crime Prevention Cooperation Unit (KSKP) is to promote networking. Only through successful networking can the societal goal of effective municipal crime prevention be achieved.

To further strengthen existing efforts in Bremen, the Crime Prevention Cooperation Unit is again providing funding this year to promote networking activities focused on crime prevention. This funding is intended to identify and support local projects that support the security strategy, particularly at the local level.

The proposed projects should address needs across city districts to ensure that as many needs-based project proposals as possible are submitted. Crime prevention stands for respectful coexistence in a changing society, and we therefore want to promote broad networking across the city districts.

Children and young people grow up in an ever-changing society where values ​​and norms are constantly being renegotiated. This process is highly relevant for their own identity and personality development. For example, mutual respect and tolerance in dealing with others are universal values ​​that must be protected.

Within this framework, the KSKP will also support projects in 2025 that aim to contribute to the prevention of youth crime and thus promote understanding of democracy and social cohesion.

Topics:

information
portal against online hate speech, run by the Senator for the Interior and Sport of Bremen. Our goal is to provide comprehensive information to those affected and interested parties, and to direct them to the appropriate offices for reporting incidents and seeking advice.

In addition to a direct link to the police's online reporting system for digital reporting, the portal also provides references to nationwide online reporting and advice centers as well as to local services for advising and supporting those affected.

Crime prevention topics

Since crime manifests itself in very diverse forms, crime prevention requires very different prevention approaches.

Promoting networking within neighborhood-based crime prevention in Bremen

One of the central tasks of the Bremen Crime Prevention Cooperation Unit (KSKP Bremen) is to promote networking. Only through successful networking can the societal goal of effective municipal crime prevention be achieved.

"Proactively against the right" – Mobile counselling in Bremen and Bremerhaven

"Young people shout xenophobic slogans in the youth center, a colleague makes racist remarks at work, parents are worried because their child sympathizes with a far-right group.".

Those affected by such and similar incidents in Bremen and Bremerhaven can contact ‘pro aktiv gegen rechts’ (pro active against the right), an advisory service offered by the Senator for Social Affairs, Children, Youth and Women. Here you will receive support – confidential, unbureaucratic and free of charge.”

Initiative “Do something! Show civil courage”

Civic courage is fundamental to the lives of people in a free society without fear of violence. The absence of fear and violence, as well as the guarantee of physical and mental safety, can be ensured through active and practiced civic courage.

Property protection through "artificial DNA"

The nationwide unique project "Artificial DNA" aims to significantly reduce the number of burglaries and thefts in the state of Bremen. Police in Bremen and Bremerhaven are focusing on both prevention and deterrence.

Weapons-free zone

According to a regulation issued by the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and the Bremen City Council, carrying weapons and particularly dangerous objects, as well as wearing clothing with emblems or symbols of certain groups, is prohibited in the weapons-free zone. The aim is to further increase the safety of citizens.

Bremen State Action Plan “Implementing the Istanbul Convention – Protecting Women and Children from Violence”

The Bremen Senate adopted the state action plan “Implementing the Istanbul Convention – Protecting women and children from violence” in March 2022.

As a comprehensive strategy, the state action plan outlines steps for implementing the Istanbul Convention in the state of Bremen and the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven over a four-year period (2022 to 2025). It provides detailed information on the objectives and measures to be implemented, relating to the central chapters of the Convention, including specific provisions regarding which political department is responsible for implementation, the required personnel and financial resources, and the target date for achieving the defined objective. This successfully initiates the process for implementing the Istanbul Convention.

Police crime prevention

Cooperation between the federal and state governments in the area of ​​crime prevention is multifaceted. All threads converge at the Central Office (ZGS), located within the State Criminal Police Office of Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart. This ZGS coordinates police crime prevention efforts at the state and federal levels and manages the "Police Crime Prevention Program" (ProPK). Its goal: to ensure that all citizens live as safely as possible.

"Stop youth violence"

In January 2008, the Senate approved a concept entitled "Stopping Youth Violence", which was jointly developed by four departments under the leadership of the Senator for the Interior and Sport.

It aims to significantly reduce the number of violent offenses committed by children and young adults, to interrupt criminal careers as early as possible, and to prosecute and punish repeat offenders promptly. It also seeks to reduce alcohol and drug abuse among young people and to equip children, adolescents, and parents with the skills to resolve problems non-violently.