Quite a few years ago (2004, I think) I worked as a Police Crime Prevention Design Adviser in Camden where I developed a number of initiatives to ‘design out' crime opportunities. One of these was Crime Opportunity Profiling of Streets or ‘COPS' as it became known. Basically it…

It's great to get new links from the police service and this time it's an important department of the Greater Manchester Police that have put one in. The department is Design for Security and this is who they are and what they do: Design for Security is a design-led crime prevention consultancy…

It's that time of year again folks. There's a hint of spring about the air; the days are now officially getting longer and in the UK the clocks are going forward on Sunday (at 01:00). What more do we need to start planning and doing stuff to improve our home security? For those of you new to home…

I've just been reading an article on Liverpool Victoria (LV) Insurance's website about empty homes and their risks. During 2015 two hundred thousand homes stood empty for more than 6 months and I have no doubt that that figure will be about the same for 2018. There are lots of reasons why a home…

It’s great when I receive an email from a satisfied customer who has found my website helpful and if I remember to do it I pop the message, or an extract from it, on my testimonials page; just so I can…

It's really nice when I find out that a Neighbourhood Watch scheme has seen fit to place a link to my website from theirs. It's even better when I check out the said NHW website and find that it's as good as this one! The North Shropshire Neighbourhood and Farm Watch Association is a registered…