How do you work today locally in your municipality or district? Are you mapping crime and unsafety issues in a systematic way? Do you collaborate between the police, the municipality, housing companies? Do you create common regular local mappings of crime and unsafety? Do you know if the interventions you conduct with the aim of reducing and preventing crime and unsafety actually have those effects? Do you actually reduce crime and unsafety?
Crime and unsafety is extremely costly and cause great suffering among many. There are very large savings to be made with more effective crime prevention and safety promotion work!
We help you to a more systematic, knowledge-based and more effective crime prevention and safety promotion work – with the help of the digital tool EMBRACE but not least with our solid knowledge support in the form of training and guidance in how to effectively map, analyze causes of crime and unsafety, choose interventions, and not the least to follow up and evaluate the interventions.
Read here about five reasons to choose the systematic and knowledge-based approach and EMBRACE.
/ Henrik Andershed, Founder, PhD, Professor of Criminology and Psychology.
Five Reasons to Choose EMBRACE
1. Enables a Knowledge-Based Approach.
EMBRACE enables a knowledge-based approach in collaboration between the municipality, police, housing companies, and more, with a simple but powerful digital tool. We also come with a partnership adding knowledge and efficiency to your local work. We collaborate with small and large municipalities, housing/real estate companies and others.
EMBRACE enables everything that a knowledge-based approach entails: To continuously map crime and issues with unsafety, to analyze the causes of crime and issues with unsafety, and to easily document and evaluate the effects of the measures taken to reduce or eliminate the causes of the problem, with the goal to prevent further crime and issues with unsafety. A knowledge-based approach is also about basing decisions concerning for example which crime preventive interventions to choose for a particular local problem on existing research and other types of knowledge. We enable this as well.
With EMBRACE our users can continuously map crime and issues of unsafety and unsafe places and follow these issues locally and over time.
EMBRACE enables the mapping of things not reported to the police such as unsafe places and incidents toward employees and unsafe gatherings of people at public places.
A very important function in EMBRACE is that our users easily can document and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions made. For example, in this area we have improved lighting. Did this actually decrease issues of unsafety and to what extent?
2. It Works.
EMBRACE works and many have realized it. More than 50 municipalities in Sweden hire us so far and more and more municipalities join.
Among those who hire us are both larger municipalities in Sweden such as Gothenburg, Uppsala, Västerås, Eskilstuna, Örebro, Botkyrka, Sollentuna but also smaller municipalities such as Kungsör, Östersund, Karlskoga, and Degerfors.
In these municipalities, EMBRACE is used in collaboration between the police, the municipality and housing companies, and usually several other organizations.
3. Efficient and Easy-To-Use and in Collaboration if You Wish.
With EMBRACE our users can easily and securely report about crime or unsafety issues with a smartphone, tablet or computer. With EMBRACE you get easy-to-grasp but powerful and useful visualizations of the received reports. You can easily see which areas and places in your municipality that are most affected and you can easily choose what you want to show and analyze.
With EMBRACE you get joint surveys and a local mapping because you can share the survey information between the police, the municipality, housing companies, and others. EMBRACE thus enables collaboration between different organizations in a municipality. You can also use EMBRACE in collaboration between several different municipalities, i.e., across different municipalities.
With EMBRACE our users can easily but effectively evaluate the interventions they conduct to see if they work. Simply draw in the map in EMBRACE where you have implemented interventions and then click on your evaluation to see if the problems have decreased where you have conducted the interventions. You can also evaluate whether problems/crime have moved from one place to another when evaluating interventions at places. With EMBRACE our users evaluate interventions in a revolutionary simple way.
4. Secure and GDPR Aligned.
With EMBRACE our users get a legally evaluated system. It is GDPR aligned with secure login, encryption, logs, etc. We make security guarantees and we formally agree and sign with all our users.
EMBRACE is also legally tested for use in collaboration (if our users so wish) between, for example, the police, the municipality and housing companies, etc.
5. A Knowledgable Partner Who Support and Develop Together With You.
We offer an efficient and easy-to-use digital tool but also training and supervision and in this way a continuous partnership with the aim to assist our users to reach their goal to create more safety and security and to prevent more crime in their respective local societies.
With us our users have a partnership and support from specialized criminologists who support and strengthen what our users wants to accomplish locally in promoting safety and in reducing crime. We help our users concretely with getting started with a knowledge-based way of working via supervision and support but also via their own web hub, the ”Users’ Hub”, containing material such as educational films, compilations of current research of effective interventions, as well as various useful templates. We also offer training in crime prevention, for example on knowledge-based work, and more.
We become your partner and you can use us for support, guidance, training, and development. We have the highest possible criminological competence that is easily at your disposal.
You get access to our network of municipalities and other organizations that share your idea to work systematically and knowledge-based. You get many new contacts and you will see and learn from many good examples.
We want to develop EMBRACE together with our users. If you want to develop something new in EMBRACE we will always listen.
