ICCP Competency Units


Click on the Competency Unit in the table to read more about that unit requirements.

Shaded areas - mark a mandatory competency unit for the Practitioner/Professional certification level

Competency Unit Competency Unit Title  Practitioner Professional
Competency Unit #01 Define the scope of the task/project    
Competency Unit #02 Work as part of a multidisciplinary team    
Competency Unit #03 Undertake research in the nominated environment    
Competency Unit #04 Read and interpret plans and drawings    
Competency Unit #05 Read and interpret plans and drawings - Advanced    
Competency Unit #06 Apply knowledge of regulatory processes    
Competency Unit #07 Analyze and assess local conditions    
Competency Unit #08 Compile written report    
Competency Unit #09 Assess and apply CPTED options    
Competency Unit #10 Apply CPTED principles in a specialist setting    
Competency Unit #11 Prepare a crime prevention/CPTED implementation plan    

COMPETENCY UNIT #1: Define the Scope of the Task/Project

    A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

    1. Identify task/project requirements

    2. Establish terms of reference

    3. Gather preliminary background information

    4. Develop strategies for approaching the task or project


    COMPETENCY UNIT DESCRIPTION:

    The purpose of this Competency is to describe how a CPTED practitioner must work with the client to properly scope a particular concern, to create a research plan to start the work, and to advise the client what they should expect from the CPTED review.

    This competency is the ability to clearly define the nature of the problem in which CPTED will be, or might be, applied. In some cases, the problem may be well defined, such as a series of ongoing burglaries or assaults. In other cases, a client, community group, organization or others may seek an improvement in more general conditions in which crime and fear are problems. There may be a desire for CPTED guidelines or policies to enhance prevention in security, architecture or urban planning.

    There are two components to Scoping a Task: Task Definition and Terms of Reference.


    THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

    CS 01 - Basic Crime Prevention and CPTED principles

    Basic crime prevention and CPTED principles including the concepts of territoriality and defensible space, history of the field, role of the developers of basic concepts including, but not limited to, people such as Jane Jacobs, Oscar Newman, C. Ray Jeffery, Schlomo Angel, Timothy Crowe, Patricia Brantingham, and Barry Poyner, as well as more recent developments into Second Generation CPTED by Cleveland & Saville.


    CS 02 - Applied research skills

    Research skills in quantitative and qualitative methods appropriate for CPTED analysis, knowledge of how to analyze and diagnose problems and apply CPTED, practical experience on CPTED projects, advanced research skills such as conducting safety audits, computerized GIS analysis, ortho-photography, surveying, analyzing crime statistics.


    CS 07 - Experience implementing CPTED

    Practical experience implementing CPTED projects (parking lots, town home, mall projects, urban parks, other small to medium sites, etc.), analysis of the politics of implementation, etc.


    CS 11 - Local legal issues (e.g. liability, disabilities regulations, laws)

    Local legal issues, such as liability, disabilities regulations and laws, and writing CPTED regulations or ordinances.


    *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

    YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

    01 (A) Task Definition: In all cases a CPTED practitioner must demonstrate the ability to narrow the focus of a CPTED project onto a clear set of goals or objectives so that specific CPTED tasks can be applied to address the problem(s). Task definition requires the practitioner to gather preliminary background information that will generate some tentative hypotheses about the scope of the problem. It will be those hypotheses that the CPTED practitioner will later analyze.

    01 (B) Terms of Reference: You must provide examples specifying how you will conduct the work on your task/project. Once the tasks are defined, the CPTED practitioner must clearly define their role and the limits of their responsibility. This is called the terms of reference. The practitioner uses initial discussions to create realistic terms of reference and deliverables for a project. The practitioner must demonstrate competency defining terms of reference regarding the relevant core subject areas.


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    COMPETENCY UNIT #2: Work as Part of a Multidisciplinary Team

      A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

      1. Establish role within the team

      2. Build credibility with other team members

      3. Contribute to team effectiveness

      4. Maintain an effective team reporting procedure

      5. Provide back-up support


      COMPETENCY UNIT DESCRIPTION:

      This competency unit deals with the individual’s contribution to the effective functioning of a multidisciplinary team and the achievement of team's goals.

      This includes the ability to:

      ・assist the effectiveness of the team process and product

      ・facilitate community participation

      ・lead the team by organizing tasks and managing conflicts


      THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

      CS 08 - Working in multi-disciplinary teams, including facilitating community participation

      Multi-disciplinary team approach; demonstrate the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary teams in conducting CPTED assessments and developing CPTED recommendations and reports. Skills in facilitating community participation.


      *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

      YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

      02 (A) How you worked in a project team during your project work, the amount of time you worked with the team, and what you did together as a team.

      02 (B) How you managed the basics of team process (managing conflict, time management, managing project expectations), and also how you plan to be inclusive and involve others in the community in your future team work.


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      COMPETENCY UNIT #3: Undertake research in the nominated environment

        A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

        1. Review relevant literature

        2. Undertake collection of primary data

        3. Review data

        4. Analyze the nature and dimensions of specific issues

        5. Identify trends and projections

        6. Prepare an existing conditions report


        COMPETENCY UNIT DESCRIPTION:

        This competency involves the ability to collect relevant information and data related to the problem at hand to address any research hypotheses developed as part of the project. It is about how, and why, a CPTED professional chooses their data sources. Depending on the size and scope of a project, that data collection should involve both quantitative and qualitative information. It also involves the systematic collection of enough research to allow an adequate analysis of the data and formulation of logical CPTED recommendations.

        Skills include:

        ・conducting relevant literature reviews

        ・collecting primary data during initial site visits

        ・conducting area inspections

        ・developing and conducting surveys

        ・source and analyze available crime statistics


        THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

        CS 01 - Basic Crime Prevention and CPTED principles

        Basic crime prevention and CPTED principles including the concepts of territoriality and defensible space, history of the field, role of the developers of basic concepts including, but not limited to, people such as Jane Jacobs, Oscar Newman, C. Ray Jeffery, Schlomo Angel, Timothy Crowe, Patricia Brantingham, and Barry Poyner, as well as more recent developments into Second Generation CPTED by Cleveland & Saville.


        CS 02 - Applied research skills

        Research skills in quantitative and qualitative methods appropriate for CPTED analysis, knowledge of how to analyze and diagnose problems and apply CPTED, practical experience on CPTED projects, advanced research skills such as conducting safety audits, computerized GIS analysis, ortho-photography, surveying, analyzing crime statistics.


        CS 03 - Lighting and landscaping

        Lighting and landscaping concepts, recognizing local security and environmental impacts and concerns.


        CS 06 - Movement predictors, crime generators, displacement effects, psychological social prevention

        Movement predictors, crime generators, edge effects, knowledge of environmental criminology and concepts like displacement effects, knowledge in psychological/social prevention strategies for safe places.


        CS 08 - Working in multidisciplinary teams, including facilitating community participation

        Multi-disciplined team approach, demonstrate an ability to work within a multi-disciplined team in conducting CPTED assessments and developing CPTED reports. Skills in facilitating community participation.


        CS 11 - Local legal issues (e.g. liability, disabilities regulations, laws)

        Local legal issues, such as liability, disabilities regulations and laws, and writing CPTED regulations or ordinances. 


        *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

        YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

        03 (A) How you collected the required information specifically to assess risk during a CPTED project, including field site visits, field interviews, statistical data collection (crime data, crime maps), safety audits, surveys, and other methods.


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        COMPETENCY UNIT #4: Read and interpret plans and drawings

          A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

          1. Identify types of drawings and their functions

          2. Recognize commonly used symbols and abbreviations

          3. Locate and identify key features on a site plan

          4. Recognize amendments


          COMPETENCY UNIT DESCRIPTION:

          This competency involves a basic skill in reading an architectural, urban planning, or site planning drawing. This includes the capacity to identify types of drawings and their functions, recognize commonly used symbols and abbreviations, locate and identify key features on a site plan, and recognize amendments to those plans. The basic plan reading competency differs from more advanced plan reading in Competency #05 in which the actual development and creation of those plans form part of the competency. In this competency, the ability to read and interpret plans and drawings, and provide relevant CPTED observations, is sufficient.

          The basic knowledge underpinning basic plan reading includes a range on drawings, not just architectural, reading measurements and scale on the drawings, and the ability to interpret terminology in order to apply CPTED concepts.


          THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

          CS 04 - Plan and architectural drawing reading

          Design skills, plan and architectural drawing reading to include photometric plan reading. The basic knowledge underpinning basic plan reading includes a range on drawings, not just architectural, reading measurements and scale on the drawings, and the ability to interpret terminology in order to apply CPTED concepts.


          *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

          YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

          04 (A) How you read and interpreted plans that already existed as part of a design team. These drawings or designs will apply to already-existing sites or properties, and not necessarily a new site, project or building that has yet to be developed (which is an additional requirement needed for Competency #5). Thus you must be able to demonstrate your knowledge about how to read the relevant CPTED-related, architectural, engineering, planning, landscaping, photometric, topographical, or other relevant features in a plan or drawing.


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          COMPETENCY UNIT #5: Read and interpret plans and drawings

          (ICCP-PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY)

            A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

            1. Identify required plans, drawings and specifications

            2. Read & interpret specifications

            3. Locate and identify related spaces and intended use

            4. Locate and identify existing strategies

            5. Recognize design deficiencies

            6. Identify design alternatives and/or treatments


            COMPETENCY UNIT DESCRIPTION:

            This unit covers more advanced reading of plans and drawings compared to Competency Unit #04. It requires participating as part of a full CPTED review that incorporates the creation of plan drawings, as opposed to reviewing an already existing plan. All the Competency Unit #04 skills are required, such as reading and identifying plan specifications, but additional skills include recognizing design deficiencies in the plan or drawing, and identifying other possible variations of plan drawings that might be required (photometric plans, landscape plans, traffic plans, and so forth). This competency includes the analysis of land use or crime pattern maps from adjacent areas to assess impact on the site plan under consideration.


            THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

            CS 04 - Plan and architectural drawing reading

            Design skills, plan and architectural drawing reading to include photometric plan reading. The underpinning knowledge in the advanced plan reading competency includes concept plans, construction or engineering renderings, landscape, photometric, traffic, and demographic renderings. The core requirement is that the practitioner can conduct a site analysis, work with plan designers, or urban designer, and create a plan drawing from the ground up.


            *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

            YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

            05 (A) How you used your underpinning knowledge to help create concept plans, construction or engineering renderings, landscape, photometric, traffic, and demographic renderings. The core requirement is that the practitioner can conduct a site analysis, work with plan designers, or urban designer, and create a plan drawing from the ground up.


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            COMPETENCY UNIT #6: Apply knowledge of regulatory processes

              A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

              1. Access information relating to the machinery of government

              2. Apply knowledge of organizational functions

              3. Apply knowledge of protocols

              4. Apply knowledge of legislation and regulations

              5. Apply knowledge of CPTED ordinances

              6. Apply knowledge of social issues, social planning and societal impacts of CPTED recommendations


              COMPETENCY UNIT DESCRIPTION:

              This competency involves knowledge of the machinery of government, legislation and regulations, organizational functions and protocols, or other formal and legal requirements relating to CPTED. It also covers skills of incorporating these in a CPTED assessment and CPTED plan or report. It may involve legal by-laws, ordinances, building codes, zoning regulations, formally adopted standards (International Standards Organization, other recommended standards) such as international ISO 22341:2021 or European CEN/TR 14392-2:2007.

              The competency also expects application of social planning considerations and regulations, and societal and ethical impacts of recommended CPTED strategies. This requires some application of social crime prevention and Second Generation CPTED.


              THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

              CS 09 - CPTED and planning, impact of local zoning ordinances, land uses

              CPTED and planning, demonstrated understanding and analysis of the impact of local zoning ordinances, conflicting land uses, the planning and development proposal process on CPTED and crime prevention and deterrence issues.


              CS 10 - Social planning and development, Second Generation CPTED, large scale planning

              Strategies in social planning and social development; practical experience on large scale CPTED projects (town planning, urban in-fill projects), community and 2nd generation CPTED, CPTED in specialized environments such as schools, town centers, new communities, Crime Free Multi-Housing, etc.


              CS 11 - Local legal issues (e.g. liability, disabilities regulations, laws)

              Local legal issues, such as liability, disabilities regulations and laws, and writing CPTED regulations or ordinances.


              CS 12 - Societal impact, ethical considerations, considerations of specific environment

              Societal and social impact upon CPTED recommendations, creating a CPTED plan that demonstrates an understanding of how space is uniquely used in a particular environment and within a particular societal variation, issues related to ethics, minorities and special interests such as religious or cultural groups.


              *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

              YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

              06 (A) How you applied the relevant local regulations, legislation, bylaws or other formal regulatory requirements pertaining to CPTED.

              06 (B) How CPTED work in your area of practice impacted ethical and societal concerns, and how you mitigated those concerns, such as how you remained inclusive of all those in the community, how you responded to issues of racism, ageism, gender bias, and other aspects of exclusion.


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              COMPETENCY UNIT #7: Analyze and assess local conditions

              A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

              1. Identify socio-economic conditions

              2. Identify likely victims and targets of specific crimes

              3. Identify possible crime facilitators

              4. Identify existing controls and strategies

              5. Analyze relationships between factors

              6. Assess threats and crime risks


              COMPETENCY UNIT DESCRIPTION:

              This competency involves skills and knowledge of CPTED problem analysis and assessing conditions where CPTED is applied. It includes the ability to analyze qualitative data (e.g.: interviews, safety audits) and quantitative data (e.g.: crime statistics, crime maps).

              The competency also includes the ability to compile the information following the application of Competency Unit #03 skills (undertaking and designing research, collecting data), and then using the data to assess the nature and dimensions of specific issues. These include identifying patterns, trends and projections, measuring potential crime displacement, and also preparing a preliminary summary of existing conditions and using that summary to identify appropriate CPTED responses.


              THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

              CS 01 - Basic Crime Prevention and CPTED principles

              Basic crime prevention and CPTED principles including the concepts of territoriality and defensible space, history of the field, role of the developers of basic concepts including, but not limited to, people such as Jane Jacobs, Oscar Newman, C. Ray Jeffery, Schlomo Angel, Timothy Crowe, Patricia Brantingham, and Barry Poyner, as well as more recent developments into Second Generation CPTED by Cleveland & Saville.


              CS 03 - Lighting and landscaping

              Lighting and landscaping concepts, recognizing local security and environmental impacts and concerns.


              CS 06 - Movement predictors, crime generators, displacement effects, psychological social prevention

              Movement predictors, crime generators, edge effects, knowledge of environmental criminology and concepts like displacement effects, knowledge in psychological/social prevention strategies for safe places.


              CS 08 - Working in multidisciplinary teams, including facilitating community participation

              Multi-disciplined team approach, demonstrate an ability to work within a multi-disciplined team in conducting CPTED assessments and developing CPTED reports. Skills in facilitating community participation.


              CS 11 - Local legal issues (e.g. liability, disabilities regulations, laws)

              Local legal issues, such as liability, disabilities regulations and laws, and writing CPTED regulations or ordinances.


              CS 12 - Societal impact, ethical considerations, considerations of specific environment

              Societal and social impact upon CPTED recommendations, creating a CPTED plan that demonstrates an understanding of how space is uniquely used in a particular environment and within a particular societal variation, issues related to ethics, minorities and special interests such as religious or cultural groups.


              *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

              YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

              07 (A) How you analyzed the information you collected during your work to complete Competency #3. This includes some reference to possible hypotheses or theories about the CPTED problem(s), how you used the collected information to examine those hypotheses or theories, and how you applied data analysis to formulate CPTED recommendations.


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              COMPETENCY UNIT #8: Compile written report

              A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

              1. Assemble information

              2. Determine report format

              3. Identify relevant documents to include in the annex

              4. Compile report

              5. Respond to queries


              COMPETENCY UNIT DESCRIPTION:

              This competency involves skills related to compiling relevant information from research and analysis and then using that to produce a clearly written CPTED report for a client. The report process will include overview of the project scope, a description of the project area and problem(s), a summary of research conducted, the results of research and the CPTED recommendations that naturally flow from that analysis.


              THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

              CS 05 - Report writing including skills in conveying information, problems and solutions to those problems emerging from a thorough CPTED analysis of conditions

              Demonstrate the ability to write a report that conveys the information, problems and solutions as determined by a CPTED survey and including a demonstration of all the basic core knowledge and skills.


              *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

              YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

              08 (A) How you prepared and presented a written CPTED report. That report demonstrates how you consolidated your information, analysis and the conclusions from your CPTED project(s). For example, the report must contain a description of the project scope, the research methods and findings, a list of recommendations, and a description of how the analysis provided evidence supporting all the CPTED recommendations.


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              COMPETENCY UNIT #9: Assess and apply CPTED options

              A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

              1. Identify treatment options

              2. Compare identified issues and treatment options

              3. Consider implementation factors

              4. Consider cost-benefit relationships

              5. Select options


              COMPETENCY UNIT DESCRIPTION:

              This competency involves utilizing the information collected following activities from Unit #3 - undertaking research - and also Competency Unit #07 - Analyzing and assessing conditions. It includes skills in developing a comprehensive range of CPTED options to help resolve problems, or potential problems, for a client. The competency also includes describing the impacts from designs and social conditions, the various CPTED tactics that might apply, which tactics are likely to produce results, potential consequences from the tactics (such as displacement of crime), and the prioritized recommendations for improvement, based directly on the documented information and analysis.


              THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

              CS 01 - Basic Crime Prevention and CPTED principles

              Basic crime prevention and CPTED principles including the concepts of territoriality and defensible space, history of the field, role of the developers of basic concepts including, but not limited to, people such as Jane Jacobs, Oscar Newman, C. Ray Jeffery, Schlomo Angel, Timothy Crowe, Patricia Brantingham, and Barry Poyner, as well as more recent developments into Second Generation CPTED by Cleveland & Saville.


              CS 03 - Lighting and landscaping

              Lighting and landscaping concepts, recognizing local security and environmental impacts and concerns.


              CS 06 - Movement predictors, crime generators, displacement effects, psychological social prevention

              Movement predictors, crime generators, edge effects, knowledge of environmental criminology and concepts like displacement effects, knowledge in psychological/social prevention strategies for safe places.


              CS 08 - Working in multidisciplinary teams, including facilitating community participation

              Multi-disciplined team approach, demonstrate an ability to work within a multi-disciplined team in conducting CPTED assessments and developing CPTED reports. Skills in facilitating community participation.


              CS 11 - Local legal issues (e.g. liability, disabilities regulations, laws)

              Local legal issues, such as liability, disabilities regulations and laws, and writing CPTED regulations or ordinances.


              CS 12 - Societal impact, ethical considerations, considerations of specific environment

              Societal and social impact upon CPTED recommendations, creating a CPTED plan that demonstrates an understanding of how space is uniquely used in a particular environment and within a particular societal variation, issues related to ethics, minorities and special interests such as religious or cultural groups.


              *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

              YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

              09 (A) How you used the collected information (from Competency 3) and the data analysis (from Competency #7) and how you then selected specific 1st and 2nd Generation CPTED strategies that were most likely to produce positive results. It needs to be clear why you selected certain principles over the others and why they might not have been appropriate.

              09 (B) You must also demonstrate how you assessed the impact from various CPTED recommendations, such as ethical issues (are some community members excluded from some areas?), or crime displacement.


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              COMPETENCY UNIT #10: Apply CPTED principles in a specialist setting

              (ICCP-PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY)

              A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

              1. Identifying challenges not normally found in the more common application of CPTED principles

              2. Assess concerns and issues that need to be addressed

              3. Develop strategies for dealing with the identified issues

              4. Consider the scope and scale of the project and how it might relate to implementation strategies

              5. Consider implementation issues

              6. Select options

              7. Consider the issues of environmental sensitivity

              8. Consider available security technology and how it relates to CPTED principles


              COMPETENCY DESCRIPTION:

              This competency involves the application and mastery of CPTED in specific environments, for example in schools, commercial areas, recreational areas, critical infrastructures for anti-terrorism programs, or other specific land uses. It differs from the more general application of CPTED in the sense that there may be unique requirements of an environment - such as a shopping mall or a children's play area - that requires blending CPTED with other strategies. Specialist settings include large scale environments, such as town planning or neighborhood redevelopment, in which more complex factors such as social programming, will require the application of Second Generation CPTED strategies and a practitioner will need a deeper understanding of CPTED principles.


              THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

              All core subject areas are included into Competency Unit #10.

              This competency demands a wide range of CPTED skills concentrated on one particular environment or unique setting. For example, applying CPTED into schools, in parking lots, on large scale urban plans, or in residential apartment buildings, among others. The skills needed for this include multidisciplinary environments, analysis, and scoping problems, to knowledge of laws and the consideration of implementation issues, environmental sustainability, disability issues, and economic and social issues, such as diversity issues. Some of the core subjects include security technology and how it relates to CPTED principles, community profile and demographic trends, civil and traffic engineering and the movement of people. Underpinning skills include communication and negotiation skills, such as interviewing and oral briefings, policy interpretation, forecasting trends, analytical approaches to data, and project management.


              CS 01 - Basic Crime Prevention and CPTED principles

              Basic crime prevention and CPTED principles including the concepts of territoriality and defensible space, history of the field, role of the developers of basic concepts including, but not limited to, people such as Jane Jacobs, Oscar Newman, C. Ray Jeffery, Schlomo Angel, Timothy Crowe, Patricia Brantingham, and Barry Poyner, as well as more recent developments into Second Generation CPTED by Cleveland & Saville.


              CS 02 - Applied research skills

              Research skills in quantitative and qualitative methods appropriate for CPTED analysis, knowledge of how to analyze and diagnose problems and apply CPTED, practical experience on CPTED projects, advanced research skills such as conducting safety audits, computerized GIS analysis, ortho-photography, surveying, analyzing crime statistics.


              CS 03 - Lighting and landscaping

              Lighting and landscaping concepts, recognizing local security and environmental impacts and concerns.


              CS 04 - Plan and architectural drawing reading

              Design skills, plan and architectural drawing reading to include photometric plan reading. The basic knowledge underpinning basic plan reading includes a range on drawings, not just architectural, reading measurements and scale on the drawings, and the ability to interpret terminology in order to apply CPTED concepts.


              CS 05 - Report writing including skills in conveying information, problems and solutions to those problems emerging from a thorough CPTED analysis of conditions

              Report Writing, demonstrate the ability to write a report that conveys the information, problems and solutions as determined by a CPTED survey and including a demonstration of all the basic core knowledge and skills.


              CS 06 - Movement predictors, crime generators, displacement effects, psychological social prevention

              Movement predictors, crime generators, edge effects, knowledge of environmental criminology and concepts like displacement effects, knowledge in psychological/social prevention strategies for safe places.


              CS 07 - Experience implementing CPTED

              Practical experience implementing CPTED projects (parking lots, town home, mall projects, urban parks, other small to medium sites, etc.), analysis of the politics of implementation, etc.


              CS 08 - Working in multidisciplinary teams, including facilitating community participation

              Multi-disciplined team approach, demonstrate an ability to work within a multi-disciplined team in conducting CPTED assessments and developing CPTED reports. Skills in facilitating community participation.


              CS 09 - CPTED and planning, impact of local zoning ordinances, land uses

              CPTED and planning, demonstrated understanding and analysis of the impact of local zoning ordinances, conflicting land uses, the planning and development proposal process on CPTED and crime prevention and deterrence issues.


              CS 10 - Social planning and development, Second Generation CPTED, large scale planning

              Strategies in social planning and social development; practical experience on large scale CPTED projects (town planning, urban in-fill projects), community and 2nd generation CPTED, CPTED in specialized environments such as schools, town centers, new communities, Crime Free Multi-Housing, etc.


              CS 11 - Local legal issues (e.g. liability, disabilities regulations, laws)

              Local legal issues, such as liability, disabilities regulations and laws, and writing CPTED regulations or ordinances.


              CS 12 - Societal impact, ethical considerations, considerations of specific environment

              Societal and social impact upon CPTED recommendations, creating a CPTED plan that demonstrates an understanding of how space is uniquely used in a particular environment and within a particular societal variation, issues related to ethics, minorities and special interests such as religious or cultural groups.


              *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

              YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

              10 (A) To satisfy this competency you need to demonstrate your work in a specialized setting. This competency demands a wide range of CPTED skills from working in multidisciplinary environments, analysis, and scoping problems, to knowledge of laws and the consideration of implementation issues, environmental sustainability, disability issues, and economic and social issues, such as diversity issues. Some of the core subjects include security technology and how it relates to CPTED principles, community profile and demographic trends, civil and traffic engineering and the movement of people. Underpinning skills include communication and negotiation skills, such as interviewing and oral briefings, policy interpretation, forecasting trends, analytical approaches to data, and project management.


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              COMPETENCY UNIT #11: Prepare a crime prevention/CPTED implementation plan (ICCP-PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY)

              A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER IS EXPECTED TO:

              1. Confirm acceptance of proposed crime prevention strategies

              2. Prioritize implementation strategies

              3. Develop crime prevention plan

              4. Communicate crime prevention plan


              COMPETENCY UNIT DESCRIPTION:

              This competency involves skills in creating a comprehensive crime prevention plan for a client. It follows Unit #8, a formal CPTED report, and it compiles CPTED recommendations into a formal plan of action. In some cases the CPTED report and the crime prevention plan may reside in the same document. In any case, the plan should include information from the CPTED report, along with a series of action steps that follow logically from the recommendations. Those action steps may include a cost/benefit review of CPTED recommendations, a timeline for implementation, an summary of potential assets and resources to assist implementation, and the expected short and long-term results from implementing the plan.


              THE CORE SUBJECTS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMPETENCY INCLUDE:

              CS 12 - Societal impact, ethical considerations, considerations of specific environment

              Societal and social impact upon CPTED recommendations, creating a CPTED plan that demonstrates an understanding of how space is uniquely used in a particular environment and within a particular societal variation, issues related to ethics, minorities and special interests such as religious or cultural groups.


              *** WHAT MUST YOU DO TO PROVE YOU SATISFY THIS COMPETENCY?***

              YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING:

              11 (A) To satisfy this competency you need to provide information showing your implementation plan (cost/benefit review of CPTED recommendations, a timeline for implementation, an summary of potential assets and resources to assist implementation, and the expected short and long-term results from implementing the plan). The plan also needs to show how it integrates information demonstrated through other competencies to offer recommendations that are problem, context and organization specific.


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              Page updated: 15 January 2022


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