ABSTRACT
Police personnel often are the only "public officers" attending consistently at locations where offenses are being committed, and who have the opportunity to recognize the need for new design and redesign of physical factors influencing the commission of offenses. Police departments have been establishing specialist intelligence collecting and collating functions, procedures, and systems. These operate at both tactical and strategic levels. They have the capacity to identify trends of crime or other antisocial activity that could be deterred or prevented by crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) techniques. Police departments have been developing specialist crime prevention bureaus to supplement and support local crime prevention initiatives. Considerable expertise has been built up in these areas especially regarding personal safety, home and commercial security, and other anticrime measures, or until social programs can be devised, which reduce the motivation of people to commit such crimes, CPTED can help make seasoned professionals' homes and streets safer.
