WILLEMSTAD - This year, the "Neighborhood Consultation" began, where the Ministry of Justice, Minister Girigorie and the Police entered the neighborhoods with the purpose that together with the people reach a consensus how to increase the sense of security in their areas. This project yielded encouraging results, and this was made known by the Ministry of Justice itself. There are already neighborhoods where the people have joined and this has additionally generated that the incidents in the neighborhoods have dropped considerably. On the other hand, there are projects with positive approaches to guide and empower young people in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of Justice. In this framework, through the funds for Criminality, a Halt project (Stop) of the Curaçao Juvenile Justice Ambulant Foundation was subsidized and it will be a broad path aimed at the prevention under our youngsters.

The Ministry of Justice created a working group to carry out the re-socialization and reintegration project. This will give opportunities promoting courses and teaching common labor work at the Curaçao Detention and Correction Center. Also to give necessary guidance to ex-detainees who must reintegrate into society.

Subsequently, the Ministry said that the Curaçao Action Center, achieved a much more intensive and effective collaboration in an integral manner between different instances of the judicial chain to achieve better research and maintenance of order. These efforts are paying off: according to preliminary figures, high-impact crimes in the community have dropped between 40 and 53%. The Minister of Justice explained that he will continue to focus on the process of removing weapons from the street. The Government of Curaçao is happy to look at this development and wants to empower the courts to continue their good work. "In addition, our entire community is there to help observe, notify and prevent illegality and criminality in order to achieve the tranquility that Curaçao deserves and needs."