BRE urges managers to design-out crime

09 Feb 09

BRE Training has launched a series of one-day training courses specifically designed to assist those involved in the design and management of housing and regeneration schemes build safer communities.

By Brian Sims

The three courses are Place Making by Design and Managing Out Crime, Problem Solving by Managing Crime and the Fear of Crime and Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour. They’re being run by Dr Tim Pascoe, the director of Griffin Research and Consultancy (a leading international community safety and crime prevention concern) and former consultant with Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International.

Place making: successful urban spaces

Place making is all about successful urban spaces that are lively, secure and distinctive, and which function well and appropriately for those that make use of them.

Building Safer Communities: Place Making by Design and Managing Out Crime is a course designed to provide a step-by-step guide to the principles and application of crime prevention through environmental design and management.

The course (which runs at the Building Research Establishment’s headquarters in Garston, Hertfordshire on 23 March) demonstrates how crime might be designed and managed out of our urban environments, providing examples of successes (ranging from major regenerations of new towns through to home zones, neighbourhoods and individual units).

Delegates who attend this course will learn…

why crime and the fear of crime are fundamental drivers to sustainability and place making
how the design and management of the urban form interrelates with the environment
what crime prevention through environmental design and management involves
about the legislation and Best Practice that supports crime prevention through environmental design and management
about the key principles and techniques of crime prevention through environmental design
designing-in crime prevention measures through environmental design in both new and existing projects
how environmental measures can reduce the fear of crime
how to use lessons learned from Case Studies

Who is likely to benefit?

The training, attendant workshop and course content will be attractive to those involved in the design and management of housing and regeneration projects. It will be of direct benefit to (among others) security and risk managers, facilities managers and police officers.

On the day there will be crime analyses, crime opportunity profiling and the aforementioned bespoke workshop.

Delegate fees are £300 per person (+vat).

Building Safer Communities: Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour

The need for eradicating all forms of anti-social behaviour in our society remains high on the Government’s agenda. The BRE’s course entitled Building Safer Communities: Tackling Anti-Social Behaviour will equip all participants with the skill and confidence to meet the Government’s Respect agenda.

This course will explain the various initiatives on offer (as well as present legislative powers), while at the same time presenting new and existing tools aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour. The course covers the benefits of working in partnership and sharing information, and also offers guidance on how best to support victims and witnesses alike.

What delegates will learn on the course

how to spot the onset of anti-social behaviour
a working knowledge of measures currently available to social landlords (including tenancy agreements, the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the Housing Act 1996, the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the Police and Justice Act 2006)
an understanding of the additional measures set out in the Government’s Respect agenda
how to work effectively in partnership with others (including the police, social and health services, youth offending teams and the probation service)
how to publicise successes and deter further acts of anti-social behaviour

This one-day event runs on 31 March at the BRE’s hq. Delegate fees are £300 per person (+vat).

Problem solving by managing crime

Problem solving is based upon ‘real’ issues, data, evidence-based solutions and information sharing, and is a major tool with which security professionals might address issues of criminality.

Building Safer Communities: Problem Solving by Managing Crime and the Fear of Crime adopts a problem-focused approach wherein the emphasis lies with working in partnership in order to resolve community problems.

The course looks at problem-solving techniques, and how they might best be applied to crime or anti-social behaviour-related situations.

This course introduces the situational approach to reducing crime, setting it in context by examining underpinning theories and evaluating Case Studies. During the course, attendees will practice the principles taught by taking part in problem-solving workshops.

In essence, the course will assist delegates to understand:

how crime and the fear of crime impacts on the neighbourhood
how to identify a problem
explain key models used in analysing crime and anti-social behaviour
what works and what doesn’t – and why
how to select the most effective solution
why monitoring and evaluation are the keys to success
partnership approaches to problems, and opportunities for networking and sharing Best Practice

The course is perfect for security and risk managers, as well as facilities managers, so too any professionals looking to reduce crime in the local environment. It runs on 3 April at the BRE’s hq. Delegate fees are, once again, £300 per person (+vat).