ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) in Canada. CPTED is an approach to building and property planning and development that reduces opportunities for crime. Communities, neighborhoods, individual homes, and other buildings, streets, and parks can all be made safer through the application of design principles that make it more difficult to carry out inappropriate or criminal activities. The North Vancouver RCMP offers CPTED evaluations for free to the citizens of North Vancouver. During an evaluation, a police officer trained in CPTED will attend the location in question to photograph and review the area. They will then compose a formal report with suggestions about how to change the environment of the location to reduce crime. Overgrown bushes and trees need trimming for the security practitioners and law enforcement professional, especially in Confederation, Parkdale, and Dewdney Pool Parks, around buildings and along parkways.
