Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

A new Crime prevention trend for homeowners:

• Commonly known as CPTED (pronounced "sep-ted") is a pro-active crime prevention strategy utilized by planners, architects, police services, security professionals and everyday users of space.
• CPTED summerizes that the proper design and effective use of the built environment can lead to a reduction in the incidence and fear of crime and improve the quality of life.
• Emphasis is placed on the physical environment, productive use of space, and behavior of people to create environments that are absent of environmental cues that cause opportunities for crime to occur.
• CPTED is common sense.
• Applying CPTED starts by asking what is the designated purpose of the space, how is the space defined and how well does the physical design support the intended function? Only then, can effective design or problem solving begin.

For further details and ideas, please check out the following link:

http://www.cptedontario.ca/