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CPTED & PROBLEM ORIENTED POLICING TRAININGOur philosophy is straightforward: We train the trainers by spending time with you and your staff to implement any program we deliver. This can then be transmitted to new staff as they are engaged to maintain continuity and integrity within your organization. The important thing is that each program is custom designed to suit each situation. All of our training courses use a multi-method format including extensive use of cohorts, self-directed exercises, and interactive problem-based learning opportunities. Participants can expect to work with others from very different backgrounds than themselves in a series of mutual explorations aimed at cross-training practitioners to enhance the adult learning experience. The videos, practical exercises, and group presentations used are all designed to enhance the cohesive in the cohorts quickly to teach the value of the holistic approach to crime prevention. ExperienceCreated the National CPTED Training Guide for the Canadian Police College, and Canada Mortgage and Housing (CMHC): Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness Canada Training has been to all levels of practitioners from a variety of disciplines including architects, planners, police, social service agencies, private companies, and government. These courses teach CPTED theory in a way that allows the participants to return to their home Agencies immediately ready to employ practical applications in everyday situations. For abbreviated course outlines click the links: CPTED Level 1, CPTED Level 2, Problem-Oriented Policing Key CompetenciesKey Competencies include expertise in the development and design of new urban projects and rehabilitation programs aimed at reclamation of communities in crisis. Programs are based on proven principles which enable legitimate stakeholders to reclaim control of their neighborhoods, enhance community ownership and increase neighborhood capacity to deter crime. Specific examples of projects in San Diego, Seattle, Vancouver, and Toronto are available upon request. Team members' experience include conducting courses or workshops locally at the RCMP Training Academy, Justice Institute of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the Urban Safety Advisory Forum, and the B.C. Crime Prevention Association. Courses were also taught across Canada for municipalities and cities where participation included municipal planners, architects, developers, industry, community groups, and the police.
AssociationsInternational CPTED Association American Society of Industrial Security Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police CPTED Level 1 -> Click for Full Course Information Page
Mike Sheard has taught CPTED for the RCMP at the Fairmont Academy from 1986 - 1996. Facilitators used in the course have include the original course facilitator and criminologist Dr. Patricia Brantingham of Simon Fraser University, architect Arthur Erickson, and landscape architect Don Vaughan among others. To keep the course real we still use local architects, landscape architects, lighting engineers, and professional city planners.
In the level one course all of the basics components of CPTED are covered. Theory and philosophy are kept to a minimum with the emphasis placed on the introduction of practical and proven tools for practitioners to use immediately. The course includes both night and daytime exercises out in the community that enhance the reality of the learning and provide added opportunities to share insights and experience. Our students usually comment that these opportunities to network while learning provided some of the best learning experiences of the course. The results are skills and competencies that have been practiced in the classroom and in exercises by Participants, leaving them ready to return to their parent organizations ready to hit the ground running. CPTED Level 2 -> Click for Full Course Information Page Level two CPTED takes the applications to the next level into meso and macro-level urban design. Aspects of social-development take on new dimensions as considerations now expand to include strategies to reduce conflicts between diverse user groups. In the level two CPTED course more time is spent on neighborhood reclamation projects; by teaching how to be a catalyst to coordinate community development and empower stakeholders, concentrating on how integration works. Far from being just theoretical, this course has received high praise Participants ranging from hardnosed street cops to urban planning professionals from west coast Vancouver and Seattle through the Regina and Saskatoon in the prairies to Halifax and Fredericton on the east coast. This course is practical and employs tactical management skills from our strategic leadership training courses. Course Facilitators come from multi-discipline backgrounds and have included politicians, police, parks and recreation staff, community planners, private industry, commercial developers, retail and resort planners, architects and other design specialists, and local neighborhood interest group representatives. Strategies to 'Take back the Turf' include topics such as neighborhood capacity and cohesion, broken windows theory, tipping points, crime mapping and analysis, and urban planning. Exercises include the macro-level "Design-A-Town" exercise aimed at practical rehearsals for participating in design Charrettes. The result is participants who have experience designed to make them more effective in the urban planning process. Problem-Oriented Policing -> Click for Full Course Information Page This is where root causes of community problems are addressed and more powerful approaches to solving them are taught. The course material is based on the National institute of Justice Problem-Oriented Policing guidebooks and Herman Goldstein's work: Problem Oriented Policing. Herman Goldstein is the Evjue-Bascom Professor in Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison and the author of Policing a Free Society. This course gets right down to work with an advanced applications of the 'SARA' Process: Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment. We work with the Participants to provide the answers to questions like: "What does community mean here"; "Who really solves crime problems?"; "Who are the stakeholders who can help integrate ordinary folks into solving community problems?"; "What is the best approach for shifting power and responsibility back to the community?" Case studies are then used to learn how to understand the problem and teach practical responses and assessment methodologies to ensure that the new processes are working. Once again this is a mixed-media course involving the Participants fully. Course facilitators are used that range from community police practitioners to community special interest groups. Each participant brings a case study of their own and work mostly in cohort groups. They all leave with practical experience in doing actual projects from start to finish. Mike Sheard is a past-recipient of the international Herman Goldstein Award for excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing. Click here to see the review of the award winning Video Arcade Crime Prevention Project (.pdf )
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