'Police Living Lab', First in the Nation in 2022... Citizens Discover Unique, Resident-Customized, Everyday Policing Policies Exclusive to Busan
Three Finalist Team Projects: Unmanned Store Crime Prevention, Creating a Safe Personal Mobility Environment for All, and Safe School Commute
The Busan Metropolitan Police Committee (Chairman Kim Cheoljun) has selected the final three teams as the outstanding working groups for the '2024 Busan Autonomous Police Public Safety Living Lab.'
The committee held a public contest for 'Public Safety Living Lab' ideas targeting Busan citizens from March to April this year. After document screening and interviews, five teams were selected, and until mid-July, they conducted on-site application research of their ideas with expert consultations.
At the interim results presentation held on the 23rd, the five participating teams presented their research achievements and on-site experiment plans. Through evaluations by public safety and design experts, three outstanding working groups were selected.
The final three selected projects are: ▲ 'Unmanned Store Crime Prevention' to reduce crime in unmanned stores, ▲ 'Creating a Safe Personal Mobility (PM) Environment for Everyone' for a sustainable and safe PM usage environment near universities, and ▲ 'Drop the Safe,' a project to create a safe commuting culture space in front of schools so students can go to school with peace of mind. These teams will conduct in-depth research until early October.
During the in-depth research phase, the committee plans to actively reflect highly effective ideas in public safety policies through processes such as prototype production and effectiveness measurement.
Activity scenes of the project to create a safe PM usage environment for everyone (PM Bangbeomdae).
The 'Public Safety Living Lab' was first introduced nationwide by the committee in 2022 to find solutions to public safety issues centered on users and the field, and to promote direct citizen participation in the process of establishing public safety policies.
This project aims to identify and experiment with unique, resident-tailored, and daily-life-oriented public safety initiatives specific to Busan, solving public safety problems through experimental research. Every year, various idea-based tasks are selected and reflected in policy.
In its first year, 2022, 22 ideas were submitted and eight on-site experiments were conducted. Among them, the 'Safe Zone for Secondhand Transactions' project, which received strong citizen support, was adopted as policy. A total of 10 sites were installed?two in 2022, four in 2023, and four in 2024?with plans for further expansion next year.
Last year, 11 ideas were submitted and five on-site experiments were conducted. Among them, the 'Parking Lot LED' project was produced as a 'Safe Parking Lot Design Reference Book' to prevent incidents and accidents in underground parking lots, and distributed to all apartments in Busan through the Korea Association of Apartment Managers.
Chairman Kim Cheoljun of the Busan Metropolitan Police Committee said, "Through the 'Public Safety Living Lab' field experiments, we will develop and materialize public safety policies that reflect the opinions of citizens, the beneficiaries of public safety policies," and added, "We will move away from an administration-centered perspective and create an autonomous police model in which Busan citizens are at the center of all public safety administration."
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