Saturday, January 19, 2008

Innovation: Safegrowth

Gregory Saville, urban planner and criminologist, presented his 2007 paper Safegrowth: The New Way Forward - Strands that bind neighborhood participation, CPTED, and community development to the Canadian Institute of Planners and the United Nations in Santiago, Chile. Mr. Saville is one of the co-founders of the International CPTED Association.

(CPTED: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design)

Read the Safegrowth article for details about this innovative process, which has a role for analysts of the future:
"In some neighborhoods it is necessary for crime prevention specialists and crime analysts to provide analytical background to neighbourhood residents before the profile begins. The teaching role of these specialists, whether police officers, security professionals or criminologists, is a new and important public safety service we will need in the future. Specialists can help others understand how to gather and analyse local information. Their success in doing that is a performance measure we can apply to their services."

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