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CPTED Canada

CPTED Canada

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

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The Evolution of CPTED by Wayne Nishihama

May 18, 2023 by CPTED Canada

To understand the origins of CPTED Canada, one must go back to the early 1990’s when Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) was finding its way into the culture of the Region of Peel, Peel Police Service and the City of Mississauga. With the support of their politicians, CPTED principles and strategies were implemented to […]

Kelowna’s CPTED Cohort by Jason Bedell

March 31, 2023 by CPTED Canada

My first introduction to Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) occurred back in 2004 as a member of South Australia Police. As a general duty member, I was expected to use basic CPTED knowledge, and provide education for break and enter victims to help reduce recidivism. Fast forward almost 20 years, as a Community Safety […]

Risk Terrain Modeling – The Universe Just Answered Back! By Tom McKay

March 3, 2023 by CPTED Canada

While I’m familiar with the saying “put it out in the universe”, I can’t say that I previously had the experience where the “universe” actually answered back.  That all changed for me at the 11th Annual Crime Prevention Conference hosted by Safe City Mississauga on October 27th, 2022 where I took in Dr. Joel Caplan’s […]

The “Abnormal” Language of CPTED – By Tom McKay

January 21, 2023 by CPTED Canada

Much has changed in the thirty-one years since I took Tim Crowe’s CPTED course.  Styles, technology, the way we communicate including the language and the care with which we choose our words especially those that can be interpreted as labels.   In this regard, I believe that it is time that we reimagine a term that […]

A Bridge Too Far – by Tom McKay

November 19, 2022 by CPTED Canada

It should come as no surprise that when I get multiple people reaching out to me in regards to a “CPTED” intervention that has and continues to make news (I was requested by a Toronto area television show for an interview on the subject), that I would take an interest in it.  Such was the […]

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