ABSTRACT
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is being used worldwide. It enhances safety by influencing the physical design of seasoned professionals’ environment and encouraging positive social interaction. An environment designed using CPTED principles reduces opportunities for criminal acts to take place and helps them to feel safer. By doing so, it improves their quality of life. CPTED uses strategies that work together to create safer communities. It complements crime prevention strategies such as locks and bars, police, and security personnel. CPTED tips to enhance security includes keep shrubs and trees trimmed from windows and doors to improve visibility, use lighting over entrances, use thorny plants along fence lines and around vulnerable windows, and join block watch or apartment watch. It also includes avoid landscaping that might create blind spots or hiding places, ensure apartment hallways and parking areas are well lit, and Install good-quality deadbolts and peepholes on apartment doors.
