Nordic Safe Cities: The Nordic Safe Cities Guide: Insights, inspiration, and best practice for your city, Nordic Council of Ministers, 2017​

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1. Safe Urban Spaces: Create a city open for everyone everywhere​

2. Safe Online Sphere: Promote an online sphere with an e-safety culture and safe online communities​

3. Strong Families: Act with families to safeguard children​

4. Safe Public Institutions: Strengthen public institutions to safeguard citizens through inclusive policies and initiatives​

5. Strong Youth Engagement: Empower the voices of youth ​

6. Safe Communities: Create safe & resilient local communities and foster friendships between people in the local neighborhood​

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Urban Safety Monitor / UN – Experts meeting Barcelona 15-16 May 2014​

• Measurements of crime, abuses and personal security. They focused on three sub-categories – crimes against property, crimes against a person, crimes against public good, which could be measured through police records, but also surveys with people, asking if they had experienced a particular incident. A particular attention should be paid to child victimization and domestic violence, a notoriously difficult task to measure.​

• Measurements of predictors of crime, for example, issues related to private security companies and if they are involved in the actual crimes. They also brought to the discussion UN-Habitat’s suggestion of thinking about space as a determinant of safety in the city, discussing how to measure land use, segregation of socioeconomic classes, percentage attributed to streets and public transport.​

• Measurements of sense of belonging and of safety. The group debated about ways to verify the community development and social cohesion, relations and trust among neighbors. The participation in public gatherings and suggestion of voter turnout, at least in a democratic country, could represent a way to look into that. One final suggestion is to look how the media might influence the sense of safety people have.​

• Measurements of needs security, which would be the ability to access basic needs like food, water and shelter that could have some correlation with measurements of crime. It should also look into the political and cultural equities and human rights issues,​

• Measurements of governmental collection, use and response of safety indicators or general info. Whether there is free, available and transparent information about safety in the city; an indicator that could show a good governmental practice and a sense of overall safety.