Public Safety and Road Safety as a Conditional Quality of Life for Residents of Provincial Cities in Poland

Abstract

Public and road safety in the place of residence is one of the most important determinants of quality of life. Protection of the safety is one of the most important tasks of the state and county, municipal and city authorities. The aim of the study was to show the diversity of public and road safety as an indicator of the quality of life for residents of provincial cities in Poland. As the basic indicators to assess the level of safety of life at the residence was used, inter alia, the number of crimes per 10 thousand. residents of the city, in particular criminal, economic and traffic offenses. As indicators to assess the level of road safety takes into account the number of road accidents, the number of wounded and killed people in accidents and the number of road traffic collisions. On the basis of the analyzed indicators were prepared ranking of cities with the highest and lowest level of public safety and road in Poland. Different levels of safety in the Polish provincial cities is high. In recent years, the total number of crimes in provincial cities remained at the same level, and is the largest Katowice, Wrocław, Zielona Góra and Gorzów Wielkopolski and the smallest in Białystok and Rzeszów. The number of road accidents and collisions in recent years has decreased but is still in a relatively high, and varies considerably. In 2014 years accounted for most traffic accidents per capita Łódź and Rzeszów, and the least per capita Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Poznań and Gorzów Wielkopolski.