General Secretariat
Secretariat for Multidimensional Security
Department of Public
Security
SSM - Departamento de Seguridad Pública
OEA-Departamento de Seguridad Publica
Second Meeting of Ministers of Public Security
of the Americas- MISPA II
November 4-5 2009, Dominican Republic
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Forum on Public Security in the Americas
Even though the region is home to just 8% of the
world population, it is where 42% of all firearm-related
homicides and 66% of all kidnappings in the world
occur.
Given the extent of the problem, the
Permanent Council of the OAS responded to that
request by convening the
First MISPA, a forum that gathered for the
first time in October of last year and has
quickly become the technical and policy
pacesetter in the hemisphere on public security
concerns as a whole. That ministerial meeting
adopted the “Commitment
to Public Security in the Americas,” a
document that expresses the political will of
the region’s countries to confront crime and
insecurity. (Speech of the OAS Secretary
General,
José Miguel Insulza, at the
Inter-American Specialized Conference on Public
Security, Montevideo, Uruguay on August 4-5,
2009.
"Topics such as
prevention, the establishment of an inter-American Police
Institute, human rights, model legislation, citizen and
community participation, and international cooperation are
all key areas to be worked on in preparation for MISPA II".
(Words of Alexandre Addor-Neto, Secretary of
Multidimensional Security of the OAS, Specialized Conference
in Montevideo,
August 2009)
Commitment to
Public Security in the Americas
We, the Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the
Americas, should foster and strengthen comprehensive long-term
governmental public security policies. (OAS,
“Commitment
to Public Security in the Americas”, adopted in Mexico
City, 8 October 2008).
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