Suwon Advances Public-Private Safety and Security Enhancement Initiative

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jeong Jun-seong] The public and private sectors have joined forces to strengthen safety and security in Suwon.

On the 6th, Suwon City held the '2023 Safety Culture Movement Promotion Council·Local Public Safety Council Regular Meeting' at the City Hall Disaster and Safety Control Center and made this determination.

At today's meeting, attended by approximately 30 committee members comprising the Suwon Saemaul Movement chairman, representatives from public institutions including police and fire departments in Suwon, representatives from safety-related organizations, and stakeholders from civic groups and the private sector, the participants shared the status of safety culture movement implementation and discussed direction for strengthening public safety measures.

As a result of discussions, Suwon City plans to implement the 2023 Safety Culture Movement across five priority areas: safety reporting, safety inspections, safety education, and safety environment improvement projects.

In the safety reporting sector, the city will operate an integrated CCTV command center, a Suwon mobile crime prevention patrol team, a 24-hour disaster and safety control center, and parent police programs at elementary and middle schools.

The safety inspection sector will implement intensive safety inspections, facility safety inspections, and monthly Safety Inspection Days.

In the safety education sector, the city will conduct △Saebich Safety Guardian training △Customized life-stage citizen safety education programs △Safe School operation support △Children's traffic safety education facility operation △Elementary school survival swimming education support △Infectious disease prevention and management education △Gender and domestic violence prevention education △Fine dust education △Addiction and suicide prevention education programs.

The safety environment improvement projects include maintenance of eight Safe Village neighborhoods (Songok-dong, Seryou 3-dong, Maesan-dong, Maetan 3-dong, Younghwa-dong, Yeonmu-dong, Seodun-dong, and Woncheon-dong), safety environment creation projects in three neighborhoods (Pajang-dong, Seodun-dong, and Maetan 4-dong), and playground equipment replacement projects at Mulirang Children's Park.

Suwon Saemaul Movement Chairman Hong Soon-ju stated, "The goal of the safety culture movement is to establish Suwon as a safe city by making safety a core value of our lives," and added, "We ask for your keen interest and cooperation so that we can eliminate the pervasive negligence toward safety in our society and expand the safety culture movement that puts safety into practice."