Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) refers to the integration of architectural design and environmental factors to reduce criminal activity. Many strategies can be used to deter crime but perhaps the three most common, effective, and practical ones are natural surveillance and visibility (00:01), lighting (04:53), and wayfinding (09:22).

Paul Timm, currently Allegion's Director of Education Safety at Allegion and formerly Facility Engineering Associates' (FEA) Vice President of Physical Security Services, discusses the fundamentals of these three CPTED principles and how they can and should be applied on school campuses. 

Timm also shares CPTED successes and failures he's encountered as both a security professional conducting school site assessments and a parent, as well as:

• Where schools that are looking to improve CPTED should start (14:56)
• Best practices for CPTED during after-school events, particularly at night (16:23)
• Advice on accessing grant funding to improve CPTED (19:02)

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