http://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime Prevention/Crime Preventionhe-ILhttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Community+Mediation+Center+Model/ModelsMain.htm#Wed,21Jul201006:58:29GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Community+Mediation+Center+Model/ModelsMain.htmMetzila publishes crime and violence prevention models which can be implemented in different communities and scenerios. The models are published in Hebrew and are in the process of being translated to English. As of today the following prevention models are available in English: The "Community Mediation Center" Model Diminishing Violence and Racism on the Football Fields by the Reinforcement and Cultivation of the Sports supporters Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:58:29 GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Metzila+Programs/MetzilaPrograms.htm#Thu,10Apr200808:45:22GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Metzila+Programs/MetzilaPrograms.htm Throughout Metzilah's activities across the country, the program encounters various communities, sectors, religions and individuals. Metzilah is proud to share examples of successful activities with the public, and hopes that they will be models for similar future projects. Metzila operates through its main office, whose staff includes the National Coordinator for New Immigrants and the Director of the Minorities Department; through its regional directors and coordinators working in 62 communities; and through regional councils in the Jewish and Arab segments of the population. In each of these communities, from Hatzor Haglilit in the north to Eilat in the south, the Metzila coordinator promotes the provision of tools enabling local communities to fight violence through coordination between the various organizations in the community. Metzila believes that the fight against violence can be waged at the level of the local community, which has quick access to available resources and professional skills. Click on picture to read more about a program or click here for full list of Metzila case studies Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:45:22 GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Where+Metzila+Operates/WhereWeOperate.htm#Thu,10Apr200806:31:33GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Where+Metzila+Operates/WhereWeOperate.htm Metzila – Northern District: Acre (Akko), Carmiel, Hadera, Haifa, Hatzor Haglilit, Jezreel and Megiddo Regional Councils, Kiryat Ata, Kiryat Tivon, Kiryat Yam, Maalot-Tarshiha, Or Akiva, Tirat Hacarmel, Upper Nazareth, and Upper Yokne'am Metzila – Central District: Alphei Menashe, Ariel, Kadima-Tzoran, Kfar Sava, Kfar Yona, Kiryat Ekron, Modi'in Area Regional Council, Nes Tziona, Netanya, Ramla, Rehovot, Rishon Lezion, Rosh Haayin, Shoham, and Yavneh Metzila – Jerusalem Region: Efrat, Jerusalem, Kiryat Arba, Maaleh Adumim, and Mevasseret Zion Metzila – Tel Aviv District Bat Yam, Kiryat Ono, Ramat Hasharon, and Tel Aviv Metzila – Southern District Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ashkelon Beach Regional Council, Beersheba, Dimona, Eilat, Mitzpeh Ramon, Netivot, Sderot, and Shaar Hanegev Regional Council Metzila – Non-Jewish Segment of Population Bedouin Dispersion, Bet Jan, Bosmat-Tivon, Ir Carmel, Kfar Kama, Kfar Kara, Kisra, Lakiya, Majar, Misgav Regional Council, Peki'in, Shfaram, Tamra, and Tuba-Zangeriya Metzila – Youth Villages Ayanot, BenYakar, Hadassah Ne'urim, Hodayot, Johanna Jabotinsky, Kanot, Kfar Silver, Kiryat Ye'arim, Nahalat Yehuda, Neveh Amiel, Nir Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:31:33 GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Areas+of+Activities/AreasOfActivities.htm#Mon,7Apr200804:56:36GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Areas+of+Activities/AreasOfActivities.htm Provision of professional consultation services in the field of crime prevention in the community. Operation of programs designed to prevent violence and to introduce advisors and volunteers to the field. Support and empowerment of school dropouts and at-risk and socially detached youths, through the operation of year-long programs of instruction, workshops, extreme sports, and club activities. Mobilization of youths and parents to work for the prevention of violence in the community. Operation of parent groups and one-day seminars for teachers. Monitoring and guidance through programs designed to empower immigrant communities, particularly immigrants from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union, in local communities and youth villages. Activities aimed at preventing violence in sport. Mon, 7 Apr 2008 04:56:36 GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Community+Mediation+Center+Model/MetsilaCommunityMediationCenter_4_3_08.htm#Tue,4Mar200806:31:00GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Community+Mediation+Center+Model/MetsilaCommunityMediationCenter_4_3_08.htmMetzila, the Ministry's Community and Crime Prevention Division recently publicized its newest model for crime and violence prevention. It is called the "Community Mediation Center" model (CMC), and is the 31st model developed by Metzila. The aim of the new model is to provide an infrastructure for creating a community mediation center as part of the formal or informal education system in the area, and it being run by young mediators. The CMC will act as a safe and effective framework for solving conflicts via mediation to all students and adults in the community, and will reduce the extent and levels of violence in the area and enhance the quality of life. The model was developed by Ilani Ababa-Kampino, the coordinator for new immigrants and boarding schools in Metzila, in collaboration with the Administration for Rural Education in the Ministry of Education, the Gevim Group Mediation Center and Conflict Management Systems (CMS). This is the fourth year which Metzila operates mediation programs as an integral part of its programs, with a special focus on youth villages. Metzila, along with the youth villages' professional staff and the Administration for Rural Education has already trained over 120 students to be young mediators and are already active in six different youth villages. The new model currently being circulated is the translation of Metzila's success over the past years in student mediation into effective tools and instructions for the use of all Metzila coordinators and other educators. The Director of Metzila, Yakov Goaz was the first to receive the completed model: "The development and creation of new models for the prevention of crime and violence is a large part of our goal. The publication and implementation of this model is yet another milestone in our professional journey. It is my hope that this model will lead us to the development of many other successful models". Tue, 4 Mar 2008 06:31:00 GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Metzilahs+Mission/MetzilahExamplesOfProjects.htm#Tue,22Nov200505:57:43GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Metzilahs+Mission/MetzilahExamplesOfProjects.htm Anti-violence projects and violence-prevention instructors in kindergartens, schools and school buses (in Kfar Saba, Ashkelon, Ma’aleh Adumim, the Jezreel Valley Regional Council, Upper Nazareth, and Alfei Menasheh); Leadership development workshops for non-problem youth (in the Ethiopian communities of Kiryat Ekron and Kiryat Shmona, plus national and regional refresher courses); School workshops to discourage aggressive dating (in Tel Aviv and Netanya); Support and empowering of adolescent school drop-outs and isolated or at-risk youth through workshops and challenging sports (in Arad, the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council, Or Akiva, Netanya, Haifa, Kfar Saba, Jerusalem and at youth villages); Use of art to discourage teenage violence (in Shoham, Haifa, Ramat Hasharon, and the Kiryat Ye’arim youth village); Youth clubs (in Carmiel and Tel Aviv); A special ‘Youth Town’ project for both at-risk and non-problem youth (Rehovot, Shoham); Anti-vandalism patrols by children and adults (Shoham, Kfar Saba, Ariel); Anti-violence neighborhood watch (Haifa, Ramat Hasharon); Youth patrols to protect the elderly in the community (Rishon LeTzion, Ashdod); Parents groups and a parents’ school (Arad, Ashkelon, Bir el-Makhsur); Study days and training courses for teachers (in all towns and lately among the scattered Bedouin settlements in the Arad district). Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:57:43 GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Metzilahs+Mission/COMMUNITY+AND+CRIME+PREVENTON+—+METZILAH.htm#Mon,21Nov200510:50:00GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Metzilahs+Mission/COMMUNITY+AND+CRIME+PREVENTON+—+METZILAH.htm Metzila is active in 76 communities throughout the country, in both Jewish and Arab towns, from Kiryat Shmona in the far north to the Bedouin communities in the Negev, and to Eilat at the southern tip of the country. Each region is served by a regional director, with each community having a local coordinator. The headquarters staff, responsible for overall planning and management, is an integral part of the Ministry of Public Security. Metzila works in cooperation with other government ministries and national agencies, but its credo is that the brunt of the fight against violence has to be fought on the local level, where the resources and the expertise are to be found. Metzila operates through its main office, whose staff includes the National Coordinator for New Immigrants and the Director of the Minorities Department; through its regional directors and coordinators working in 62 communities; and through regional councils in the Jewish and Arab segments of the population. In each of these communities, from Hatzor Haglilit in the north to Eilat in the south, the Metzila coordinator promotes the provision of tools enabling local communities to fight violence through coordination between the various organizations in the community. Metzila believes that the fight against violence can be waged at the level of the local community, which has quick access to available resources and professional skills. Local Metzila coordinators operate through the community committee that has been established by the local community and which is headed by the mayor or by the mayor's representative who has been appointed by the municipality. After an up-to-date picture of crime in the local community has been established, the community council convenes to discuss the problem of local violence and crime and to set up a work program that can effectively deal with the problem. The committee consists, inter alia, of the representatives of municipal education, social services and security departments; representatives of the relevant local committees; the commander of the local police station; school principals; the director of the local Metzila branch; and representatives of the community at large. The Metzila coordinator and the regional director monitor the activation of the program for the prevention of local violence and crime and carefully study the program's output. Examples of Metzilah Projects Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:50:00 GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Using+Technology+to+Prevent+Crime/TechnologyInCrimePrevention.htm#Mon,21Nov200507:17:01GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Using+Technology+to+Prevent+Crime/TechnologyInCrimePrevention.htm Crime and delinquency form one of the scourges of the modern era. The accepted way of dealing with them is through the mechanisms of the law - the police, courts and prisons, detection, deterrence and punishment. In recent years more attention is being paid to ways of preventing criminal activity and violence before they are committed. The United States’ National Crime Prevention Council defines this preventive activity as “the actions of observing, detecting and evaluating the risk of criminal activity and taking steps to forestall or reduce that risk”. Crime prevention is what the law-enforcement system does before a crime is committed and before the conditions leading to its commission come into being. Preventive activity and the deployment of technology and other appropriate means are definitely capable of reducing criminality and deterring offenders, and not only from fear of being caught. Technology as a Means for Crime Prevention The Bureau of the Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Public Security has compiled a manual Technological Means for Crime Prevention — to be periodically updated — to guide Metzilah in its day-to-day work with the Israeli public. The Hebrew-language notebook is designed to help local Metzilah coordinators, police station commanding officers, security officers and other senior security personnel in their efforts to link citizens to the fight against crime. Members of the public too can take ideas from the folder for increasing their personal security, both at home and more broadly for deterring crime. The manual sets out detailed instructions for preventive behavior and enumerates the technological means and devices appropriate to meet different threats and situations, thus allowing each individual to adapt his strategy and select his methods according to his own particular needs and resources. As is stressed in the introduction of the manual: Relate to these means as one relates to health insurance. “It is good to have it, but hopefully you won’t be in a situation to need it.” Crime prevention behavior advice includes: Supervise your small children Prevent personal property theft Walk in lit areas at night Have your car keys or house keys ready when needed Park your car in a lit area Protect your credit card and code numbers Keep your personal protection items available and visible Avoid public displays of your valuables, such as jewelry and cash Lock your bicycle, motorcycle, car Do not keep your house keys hidden outside in a “safe” place. Instead, install a small safe outside where your keys can be kept. Provide a proper address and name on your house/apartment to avoid strangers bothering you or the neighbors. Notify the police of suspicious individuals or dangerous animals present in your neighborhood. Items specified together with detailed instructions for their use include I. For personal protection: Pepper spray Taser (electric shock device) Personal alarm Deterrence by guard dogs Body armor and protection Detection of forged currency Goggles for rear-view vision Electronic interference to prevent telephone bugging II. For vehicle security: Bicycle, motorcycle, automobile locks Alarm systems Location and emergency signal devices Vehicle security systems III. Home and business security Door and window locks and window grills Safes Gates and perimeter fencing Entry surveillance Interior detection systems Observation and communications systems A control and security center IV. Neighborhood security Perimeter detection and warning Gates and entry control Closed-circuit television Public address and warning systems Control and security center V. Environmental planning for crime prevention Roads and paths Trees and vegetation Public facilities Lighting Location and security of public buildings Signs and identification marking Availability of telephones Alarms and controlMon, 21 Nov 2005 07:17:01 GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Community+Projects/MetzilaCommunityProjects.htm#Mon,21Nov200506:16:43GMThttp://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/Crime+Prevention/Community+Projects/MetzilaCommunityProjects.htm They reduce violence levels and create a better atmosphere in schools: In Kfar Saba (the Bar-Lev program – “Junior High School Student Empowerment”); in Alfei Menasheh (the Harel program - “Listening, Self-Restraint, Sensitivity, Love and Learning” brought about a 40% decline in violence and a 60% improvement in student performance); in Netanya (challenging sea-sports). They reduce school drop-out: In Haifa (scuba diving for at-risk youth), in Arad (rappelling), in Kfar Saba (football school and the Bar-Lev program); in Netanya (sea sport for drop-out youth) Metzilah programs took students from remedial classes into matriculation classes; in Alfei Menasheh (music group), in Tel Aviv (neighborhood youth-club activities). They draw students into community activities: In Arad graduates from a rappelling course helped restore a vandalized building; in Tel Aviv teenagers helped run activities in a neighborhood youth club; in Shoham students patrolled for environmental nuisances and pollution; in Kiryat Shmona they worked in the municipality’s emergency call-center. They reduce violence and vandalism in the community: In Ashdod students helped protect the elderly; in Ramat Hasharon they took part in a Secure Community project; in the Jezreel Valley Regional Council they helped with organized student transport; in Ariel they worked among other teenagers. They help develop support and activity projects for disadvantaged youth: In Arad (a course in emergency rescue), in Kfar Saba (dog training), in Carmiel and Tel Aviv (a youth club), in Shoham and Rehovot (Youth Town project). They reduce the number of police files on isolated teens: In Arad and Shoham (from 22 to 9 files in six months). They increase recruitment to the Israel Defense Forces: In Or Akiva (all 20 project participants signed up for combat and elite IDF units); in Tel Aviv (neighborhood youth club members), in Arad (graduates of a course in emergency rescue)Where Metzilah Operates Northern Region: Or Akiva, Megiddo Regional Council, Jezreel Valley Regional Council, Haifa, Tiberias, Tirat Hacarmel, Carmiel, Upper Nazareth, Acco, Kiryat Shmona. Central Region: Alfei Menasheh, Ariel, Kfar Saba, Netanya, Rishon LeTzion, Rehovot, Shoham. Tel Aviv Region: Holon, Kiryat Ono, Ramat Hasharon, Tel Aviv. Jerusalem Region: Jerusalem, Ma’aleh Adumim, Kiryat Arba. Southern Region: Ashdod, Ashkelon, Be’er Sheva, Dimona, Arad, scattered Bedouin populations in the Arad area, Ashkelon Coast Regional Council, Sderot, and now newly organized in Eilat. In the youth villages: Ben-Yakir, Hadassah Youth, Yohanna Jabotinsky, Nava Amiel, Nir Ha’emek, Einot, Kiryat Ye’arim. In minority communities: Yarka, Usfiya, Daliat a-Carmel, Kfar Kara. Mon, 21 Nov 2005 06:16:43 GMT