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SAFETY ENSURING SECURITY The SCBA (Foundation for Collective Security Amsterdam) has taken another step towards enhancing safety and security on business premises in the Amsterdam Westpoort area. On 17 February, two of its Board members and representatives of the Amsterdam Police and security firm G4S signed a covenant that clears the path for information exchange in this part of the city. A similar covenant was already in place for Diemen, Amsterdam Southeast and Ouder-Amstel. TEXT: CEES VISSER PHOTO: SCBA The SCBA was established in 1996 in response to a police decision to reduce preventive surveillance in industrial areas. Business owners wanted to maintain a certain surveillance level and the idea caught on in many similar organisations throughout the country. Director of SCBA, Debora Lenten, explains that the goal is to stop criminal activities on industrial estates and stimulate the unimpeded use of goods and equipment by companies, employees, visitors and passers-by. A tool used by SCBA to achieve this – called preventive, collective and mobile surveillance – is often implemented in the evenings, at nights and during the weekends when many industrial areas and premises are unoccupied. To ensure preventive surveillance is effective and functions as the eyes and ears of the police, cooperation with the police force and the sharing of relevant information is crucial. Doing so requires a statutory basis, however, which is why the covenant has been drawn up. Lenten: “A covenant is essential to enable detailed information exchange between the parties involved. This involves issues such as car registration numbers or descriptions of suspicious cars or individuals on industrial premises. This information enables a more data-driven work method.” Data-driven in this context means that the surveillance is based on police information and information from the surveillance within the collective, especially where it is most needed, Lenten explains. “This means that if we suspect criminal activities are moving or that something may occur in a specific location, we have the insight to rapidly shift the activities of the police and collective surveillance. This way we work together proactively so that we can quickly respond to developments and improve safety.” Westpoort The Westpoort area has been part of the working sphere of SCBA since its establishment. It involves an industrial area of 35 km 2 that employs some 47,000 employees, and includes the Sloterdijk areas, the Heining and the Western port area. Lenten: “After we chose to cooperate with a new party after a tender, namely G4S, the covenant with our previous partner (Securitas) was terminated. It took a few years to draw up a new covenant with all those involved, which was delayed by the reorganisation of the various areas and the formation of the national police force.” Lenten says that crime in Westpoort is ‘relatively low’ at this point and cooperation is of the essence to keep things this way. But crimes do still take place. “Street races, hemp cultivation, fuel theft, break-ins... The latter, for instance, have a huge impact on the perception of safety so every break-in is one too many. Using preventive surveillance in the area and access to police data we try to identify and come into contact suspicious vehicles and individuals at an early stage. Experience teaches us that people with malicious intent who feel they are being watched will quickly leave the area.” • WWW.COLLECTIEVEBEVEILIGING.EU <strong>AMSTERDAM</strong> SEAPORTS 2016 37
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