Agreement signed between the Municipality, Afvs and Uelpe associations. The local police will train ten people who will make security
UDINE. “Steady wheels, pedestrians safe”. It is the new project that sees the Municipality of Udine, Afvs (Non-Profit Family Victims Association) and Ulepe (Udine Local External Criminal Execution Office) as protagonists together to ensure road safety.
The memorandum of understanding was signed yesterday by the mayor Pietro Fontanini, by the Afvs president, Giacinto Picozza, and by Rita Bonura, director of Ulepe.
Udine is the fifth city in Italy to have joined the project which will see ten people who have broken the highway code, after an adequate period of training and under the constant surveillance of the local police, take on the role of “pedestrian assistants” and supervise the most dangerous crossings of the city.
The project, to which the municipality of Udine immediately decided to join, was born on February 2, 2021 in Turin and is configured as a real path of restorative justice.
“The agreement we signed has a duration of three years and is at no cost to the administration, as it is financed by the Fund for victims of the road set up by Afvs – declares the mayor Fontanini -, and it is an important initiative aimed at ensuring greater safety on our roads, with particular attention to those next to schools, mostly frequented by young people “.
“We are happy that the municipality of Udine has immediately decided to embrace this project – says the president Picozza -, an administration that has shown itself to be sensitive in terms of safety and protection of the weak people on the road, to which is added the particular attention to the re-education of those who have broken its code “.
The initiative launched has a twofold objective: on the one hand, to increase safety for pedestrians during crossings, and on the other, to re-educate those who have violated the rules, giving them a second chance by making themselves available to citizens. and the public good.
It will be up to the local police to train the ten people who, equipped with a reflective harness and a shovel, will facilitate pedestrian crossing for road users.
«In the next few days – clarifies the commander of the local police, Eros Del Longo – we will start a path through which we will identify and train the ten people, fundamental steps also to guarantee their own protection. We hope to be able to guarantee this new service as early as September ».
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