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"Mr President, my good friend and colleague Mr Deprez has overlooked the fact that today is not a particularly good day for Belgium either.
My group’s position is in line with the conclusions of the Cerdeira and Sousa Pinto reports, insofar as we believe private security companies must be regulated at Community level. Given the size and activity of the sector across the Union, its activity should be regulated, as is recognised by Mrs Cerdeira Morterero in her report. I do however admit the validity of the arguments put forward in favour of reconsidering the initiative given the need to adjust it to its legal basis.
With regard to setting up a European Institute of Police Studies, this ought surely to come within the scope of the European Police Academy, precisely because we should avoid creating a multiplicity of rival bodies.
Both these initiatives do nonetheless demonstrate the Spanish Presidency’s emphasis on and commitment to achieving maximum efficiency from bodies established to guarantee the safety of the citizens of Europe.
Ladies and gentlemen, European public opinion is becoming increasingly concerned not only about the rise in delinquency, but also about the increasing tendency to resort to street violence.
All too often, mass events such as football matches or public demonstrations turn into pitched battles resulting in the destruction of street furniture and sometimes in personal injury. The demonstration may start out as legitimate and peaceful like those organised by anti-globalisation movements, but then things go wrong. The average citizen will not venture into certain areas of our big cities after dusk. The citizens are clearly concerned about the present lack of security and unhappy with the situation. This is why private security companies are flourishing and need to be regulated at European level. More thought should also be given to the relationship between public and private security. It does seem as if those who can pay for their security can be sure of it, and those who are not in a position to do so are at greater risk. In other words, those who have the money can buy the security the state is unable to guarantee. I do therefore believe that the issue should be dealt with in greater depth.
Furthermore, street violence, cyber crime and child pornography are all new offences and involve a significant psychological element. This may possibly result from the dynamism and hyper development of a society with a great capacity for the transmission of information and communication, in which values such as safety, justice and urban peace have been sidelined in favour of misconstrued notions of modernism and progress.
Coordinated police action is required if we are to rise to the challenges posed by these developments at European level, together with the swift implementation of initiatives designed to overcome them, such as the one before us today."@en1
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