Security, security policies and policing strategies

La percepción subjetiva de la inseguridad ciudadana se ha convertido en un problema real al que urge darle respuesta. La seriedad de los efectos que produce obliga a buscar mecanismos eficaces para reducir el sentimiento de inseguridad que caracteriza la sociedad actual. Poco contribuye a esta labor el tratamiento que los medios de comunicación dispensan al fenómeno de la delincuencia y, asimismo, escasa ayuda supone la adopción de una política criminal complaciente con las constantes reivindicaciones sociales de mayor intervención penal. Lo que, en cambio, sí juega un papel relevante es la labor policial y, más concretamente, la implementación de determinadas estrategias que han demostrado su capacidad para reducir la referida sensación.The subjective perception of insecurity has become a real problem which needs to be solved urgently. Due to the seriousness of his consequences we are inevitable forced to seek effective mechanisms to reduce the feeling of insecurity that characterizes our today’s society. The treatment that the media give to the delinquency does not help us to gain such an aim. The same can be said about a criminal policy whose only purpose is to please the social demand of a greater criminal involvement. However, what is really called to play a greater rolle is policing and, more specifically, the implementation of certain strategies, which have proved their ability to reduce this afore mentioned situation