Crime prevention Advice 

 

​Target hardening

Making targets more resistant to attack or more difficult to remove or damage

•  Fitting stronger doors

•  Upgrading window or door locks

•  Installing alarms

•  Improving fencing

•  Keeping a home well maintained

•  Make sure the car is locked when unattended

•  Ensure all smart devices have password protection, do not trust factory

• default settings

•  Install updates for computers, laptops and smart devices

 

Target removal
Make sure the property isn’t visible or easily accessible

•  Move valuables away from windows and doors.

•  Install a safe or other secure storage

•  Don't leave phones or other valuables in your vehicle 

 

Remove the means
Making sure that any material capable of being used to help an offender commit a crime is properly stored

•  Store garden tools or machinery in a locked shed

•  Used Sold Secure ground anchors when locking equipment or bicycles

•  Secure ladders to prevent access to open upstairs windows

•  Keep bins inside the garden as they could be used to climb the fence

 

Reduce the payoff
Employing means to reduce the value of any loss

•  Conduct a security survey and assess the home, shed or business

•  Improve security by repairing fences and hedges, maintain the building, upgrading doors and windows, and replacing locks

•  Property marking with Smart Water, Selecta DNA inside the house or forensically coded grease on external belongings or metal 

•  Create a detailed inventory of every item in the building

•  Install a safe for all valuables and important documents

Access control
Restrict access to gardens and buildings

•  Video intercom for apartments

•  Audio/ visual door bell

•  Lock door and windows, when upstairs or in the rear garden

•  Visitor book and identification on lanyards for schools, nursing homes, businesses, etc

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Visibility / Surveillance
Making sure than an offender would be visible if they carried out the crime

•  Natural – sight lines maintained

o Making sure the building is more visible from the street
o Maintain hedges and fencing to encouraged surveillance from inside the house or business
o Installing or improving lighting

•  Formal – using technology or employees

o Using CCTV or other technology
o Employ staff or security officers to watch over and patrol

•  Informal – pedestrians or passers by being vigilant

o Involves the whole community where people are encouraged to be vigilant - such as Neighbourhood Watch.

 

Environmental Design
Changing the environment to reduce opportunities for committing crime

•  Changing an area can improve the location and reduce the criminal

• opportunity

•  Increased lighting

•  Maintaining or removing hedges or overgrown plants

•  Redesigning footpaths and roads

•  Adding street furniture and other facilities to encourage legitimate use, parks

• and other places feel safer with lots of people

 

Rule Setting
The introduction of rules sets out acceptable behaviour based on legislation, bylaws and codes of conduct

•  Displaying rules at entrances informs visitors or passers by

•  Code of conduct for residents, club members or staff

•  Once rules are in place, offenders can be questioned or challenged

 

Increase the chance of being caught
Anything that slows down an offender or increases their chances of being caught

•  Locks, padlocks and chains

•  Gates, fencing or hedges

•  Anti-climb paint

•  Forensic property marking

•  Forensically coded grease