Rosario is the birthplace of the Argentina’s national flag, has a population of more than 1 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area of more than 1.4 million, which makes it one of the three most important cities in the country. Located on the Paraná River, it stands out for its productive, cultural, sports profile and for its public spaces.
1,750,000
31 m
178.69 km2
From the municipality, in coordination with the government of the province of Santa Fe, the national government and the judiciary, multi-agency intervention policies are being implemented for the prevention and combat of crime and violence. Among them are the Flagship Plan and the Focused Neighborhood Interventions Plan. Based on a complete diagnosis and a heat map, intervention and pacification strategies are designed for the neighborhoods with the highest indicators of violence.
Rosario has been the first city in the country to have an Agency against money laundering. Likewise, the municipality has invested in centralized smart technology in a Monitoring Center that allows expanding territorial control and providing inputs to judicial investigations. Another of the prioritized policies is the urbanization of low-income neighborhoods with greater indicators of vulnerability, which has proven to contribute significantly to the guarantee of rights, pacification and coexistence.
In the last decade, the city has been afflicted by high rates of homicides and other forms of violence, always above the national average. However, this is not a problem of a city only, but it is also a provincial and national issue. The local government has neither police forces nor armed personnel, but it has responded to demands for concrete measures.
Coordinated measures by the three levels of government have been implemented, and immediate and strong results have been seen, with homicide indicators down to rate of a decade ago. Among results achieved by the city government, it could be mentioned:
video control cameras in the Rosario Integrated Operations Center
Urbanization interventions in vulnerable neighborhoods
of public luminaires refurbished to LED technology
Municipal Health Centers
Care Centers
Digital Stations
