This is a community prevention program to reduce residential burglary rates in the community.
It was developed in two phases:
1) The first corresponds to the articulation of a set of actions to establish the connection between repeat victimization and crime prevention, removal of barriers to improve natural surveillance, and improvement of physical security aspects.
2) The second seeks to reduce the motivation to offend, focusing on the offender.
The program conducts interviews with residents of homes that have been burglarized, their neighbors, and lawbreakers convicted of residential burglaries. The information gathered helps to identify the methods offenders use to pick their targets and break into homes. This knowledge is the basis for designing local prevention actions.
Among the main actions planned are the creation of a savings and credit cooperative, a work program, crime prevention programs in schools, group meetings for law offenders, and information exchange between the community and probation and judicial officers.