**This course is one of the two courses required for those seeking the Law Enforcement CPTED (LE-CPTED) Certification through the Crime Prevention Center.  The course may be offered as a certification course with testing, or as a stand-alone non-certification applicable course, without testing. This course includes an assessment of the physical structure of a facility requirement.

This training is intended to expand upon the concepts and principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design learned in the basic course. The course will provide a more detailed examination of the specific environments and tools needed by law enforcement to successful serve as a CPTED Practitioner.

Recognizing that the primary role that law enforcement serves in the application of CPTED is conducting security assessments of homes and businesses, this course makes efficient use of the training hours to address those specific needs. As such this course provides tools most valuable in conducting security assessments, and only briefly touches on schematic plan review.  Specifically, this class will provide students with included security assessment tools to aid in their work of conducting security assessments in specific environments.  These tools will be demonstrated and are designed to guide, not replace, the knowledgeable assessor. The tools are most useful in time savings during the report writing process.

The course will take a deep dive into understanding the most cost-effective devices and measures useful to the modern law enforcement student’s constituents, to further guide the assessor appropriate recommendations.

Among other topics, the course will address:

·         Understanding the construction process

·         Reading the symbols of construction

·         Use of landscaping

·         Lighting choices and uses

·         The impact of color and texture

·         Modern alarm and electronic access control

·         Mechanical locks-defeat techniques in use

·         Vaults and safes

·         Use of the provided assessment tools.

Who should Attend

This course is designed for any law enforcement agency staff tasked with, or who will be tasked with, conducting vulnerability security assessments on homes, businesses or non-regulated facilities or those seeking the credential of a Certified Law Enforcement CPTED Practitioner (LE-CPTED).

Tools

It is recommended that student bring a digital camera with a removable SIM card and a portable (laptop or tablet) computer for this class.

Course Length:  Five days