The goal of crime prevention teams is to develop risk management strategies that combine traditional areas of expertise with a significant amount of intelligence gathering and to have these strategies implemented by committed and conscientious experts in order to provide a service that is results-oriented.
Some principles of crime prevention are:
- Making your property harder for an offender to access
- Ensuring that a potential target is out of view
- Removing items that may help commit an offence
- Reducing the profit the criminal can make from the offence
- Looking at measures that will control access
- Improving surveillance
- Deterring an offender or deflecting their intention.