City police station site selection with passive defense approach to develop safe tourism activity (Case study: Chalus City)
Mohammad Abbaspoor
1
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Department of Geography, Islamic Azad University of Nour, Nour, Iran
)
صدرالدین Motevalli
2
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Associate Professor and Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Noor Branch
)
Gholam Reza Janbaz Ghobadi
3
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Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Islamic Azad University of Nour
)
Sara Gholami
4
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Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Islamic Azad University of Nour, Nour, Iran
)
Keywords: Passive Defense, police site selection, safe tourism, Chalus City,
Abstract :
The establishment of police station as an important urban element of providing security in the physical-spatial position of the coastal city of Chalus is subject to special principles, rules and mechanisms, which, if followed, will contribute to the success and functional efficiency of this important element in carrying out activities combined with safety for tourists. In this research, using the descriptive-analytical method, in order to develop safe tourism, site selection of police stations was investigated and analyzed with a passive defense approach. First, the services, infrastructure/ equipment, social/ cultural, physical/ environmental and tourism criteria, including 21 spatial criteria in the form of 5 variables, were used to select suitable areas for establishing a police station in the coastal city of Chalus. This step includes data preparation, normalization and overlaying of influential spatial components in the selection of suitable areas for the creation of new police stations in the study city, which was made possible by the process of fuzzy hierarchical analysis. According to the final weights of the sub-criteria, the level of crime in different urban areas of Chalus is the most important factor in determining the optimal location for the establishment of a new police station from the point of view of specialists and experts. According to the site selection map for this, there are three areas suitable for the construction of a police station in Chalus city: first section is on Chalus-Nowshahr road axis in the southwest part of the city, second section is the distance from Imam Khomeini Boulevard to Imam Reza Boulevard in the area of Dostgar Street to Pourmoradi Street and third section is Radio Darya Boulevard in the area of Golsar Hotel. Considering these suitable spots, some suggested situations for the construction of new police stations with a non-active defense approach in safe tourism have been presented.