Being aware of crime and vandalism

Some evidences of vandalism

Recently, there has been a rise in vandalism, and the police are trying to put up poster to prevent this from happening,
Here are some examples of vandalism below:









Crime prevention through environmental design principles



A Proper design and effective use of the built envrionment can reduce the incidence and fear of crime.



Four principles of CPTED are:

• Natural Surveillance

Placing small cameras along the crowded shopping streets which keep intruders under obervation. This particular technique can be channelled to put more people(obervers) near a potential crime area.

• Natural Access control

Relies on doors, fences, shrubs and other physical elements to keep unauthorised persons out of a particular place if they do not have a legitimate reason for being there.

• Territorial reinforcement

Clear boundaries between public and private areas achieved by using physical elements such as fences, pavement treatment, art, signs, good maintence and landscaping are ways to express ownership.

• Maintenance and mangement

With clear spatial definitions such as sub divison of space into different degress of public/semi-public/private areas and the raising of standards and expectations.This is known to be related to reduction in opportunitites for aberrant or criminal behaviour, such as vandalism.

Consequences of vandalism
An offence under the act to commit any act of vandalism, attempt to do any such act, or cause any such act to be done.
Upon conviction, the penalty is a fine not exceeding $2000 or imprisonment not exceeding three years and also corporal punishment of not less than three strokes and not more than eight strokes of the cane.

Using printed advertisement in raising awareness of crime and vandalism.

By posting this posters around public places in singapore, the police is also having a challenge to create public awareness about the measures inplmeneted in the neighbourhood to detect and prevent terrorism,

Here below are some examples of the poster place in the public places;

Using facebook as a tool to raise awareness of crime prevention

http://www.facebook.com/national.crime.prevention.council?ref=ts&v=wall