SAFE CITY WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION ACCREDITATION
Achievement	Target Date	Description	Progress	Further Information

ACHIEVEMENT: The City of Melbourne is accredited by the World Health Organisation as a Safe City.

TARGET DATE: June 2000

PROGRESS: Achieved.

DESCRIPTION: While Chairperson of the Environment, Community and Cultural Development Committee, the City of Melbourne became the third city in the world to achieve WHO accreditation as a Safe City.

The City of Melbourne has a major role as a leader in city safety, being the first capital city in Australia, and only the third in the world, to gain international accreditation with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in April 2000 as a designated Safe Community. To celebrate this achievement, the City of Melbourne organised and hosted the three-day WHO Safe Communities International Symposium, which focused on Community Safety in Major Urban Environments. The symposium, at Melbourne Town Hall, attracted more than 70 delegates. I was one of the speakers who represented not only local government, but law enforcement agencies, business and retail communities, academia and health and safety organisations. Glasgow, Stockholm, Johannesburg, Melbourne and Sydney were among the cities profiled.

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