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Jovie D. Dacoycoy March 20, 2013

BS Criminology III

TECHNICAL WRITING NO. 12
WRITING A RECOMMENDATION

The following recommendations are an indication of the typical environmental
security issues to be considered. Solutions will vary from site to site and will depend on
the location and management style of the school.
Provide a substantial secure boundary and limit access points for vehicles and
pedestrians. Negotiate the removal of public rights of way across the site. Fences
should be substantial and gates should be of a similar standard. A secure boundary
is of primary importance to school security. It will reduce and allow the effective
management of most crime and anti social behaviour problems that can be
anticipated. Use landscaping to enhance security and resolve aesthetic issues.
Limit and control the main access route for visitors to the school. Ensuring that it is
direct, easily accessible and clearly signed. Importantly, main access routes should
not allow opportunities for informal unsupervised access to other parts of the
school.
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Keep the building shell simple in shape and plan form to aid surveillance and
reduce hiding places. Avoid recesses or overhangs, which might provide
opportunities for shelter, which could be abused.
Consider and introduce where possible natural surveillance from windows across
open spaces playgrounds and car parks.
Roofs generally should be designed to inhibit casual access and avoid hiding places
for intruders. Avoid flat roofs and weak security points such as roof lights and
ventilators. Simple pitched roof shapes with robust eaves details are preferable.
Avoid providing easy climbing facilities to roofs, which may be provided by
rainwater down pipes, overflow pipes and low gutters. Steps provided by wall
features or adjacent railings and other features should also be avoided.
Assist surveillance around buildings and assist with staff personal safety with good
quality energy efficient dusk to dawn lighting, which is vandal resistant. Avoid high
lighting levels, which may produce threatening dark shadows.
Secure car parking and cycle storage should be overlooked, well lit with limited
access points. Cycle storage facilities should be capable of being locked up and
secured.
Secure windows and doors to be to 'Secured by Design' standard as a minimum
Provide an Intruder alarm system linked to police response.
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Provide facilities to keep rubbish disposal away from buildings, keeping 'wheelie
bins' and skips secure so they cannot provide opportunities for access to roofs or
arson attack.
Provide 'designed for purpose' secure areas where high value or vulnerable items of
equipment are used. Provide appropriate secure storage facilities for high value
portable equipment. Note the increased lap top computer use.
In high risk areas consider shutters or grills for windows, sprinkler systems, facilities
for CCTV and manned guarding.