Seminar Description
The Basic CPTED Certification Seminar focuses upon basic CPTED skills and knowledge required by law enforcement officers, architects and community planners.

This seminar will be of significant benefit to crime prevention officers and specialists with limited CPTED training and experience.

Upon successful completion of this seminar, participants will be certified by the American Crime Prevention Institute as CPTED Specialists.

Who Should Attend
The Basic CPTED Certification Seminar will be of significant benefit to law enforcement crime prevention officers, non-sworn crime prevention specialists, and community policing officers with limited CPTED training and experience.

What is Basic Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Seminar
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is based upon the principle that "the proper design and effective use of the built environment can lead to a reduction in the fear and incidence of crime, and an improvement in the quality of life".

The CPTED concept employs design strategies, citizen participation and law enforcement involvement to reduce both the fear of crime and the incidence of crime.

In communities throughout the United States, law enforcement agencies have become increasingly involved in the implementation of local CPTED codes and ordinances.

Although CPTED should not be the sole responsibility of the police, law enforcement officers involved in crime prevention and community policing programs need a solid foundation of knowledge related to CPTED planning and execution.

Law enforcement agencies should be involved in the preplanning of any community activity where their services will later be required.

Together with architects, local planners, developers and elected officials, law enforcement agencies should endeavor to employ CPTED principles to better protect residential environments and developments, public housing, schools, parks and recreation developments, commercial and manufacturing facilities.

Proper employment of CPTED strategies can reduce crime and improve the quality of life.

Topics
Day 1
" Status of CPTED Worldwide
" CPTED Operating Definitions
" Confessions of a Burglar
" CPTED Definitions and Strategies
" How CPTED Differs from Contemporary Approaches to Procedural and Physical Security
" Assessment of Space
" Historic Precedents of CPTED
" Critique of Sites
" Benefits of CPTED Planning Activities
" Results of CPTED demonstration Program

Day 2
" The Nine Basic Space Management and Design Strategies Used in CPTED
" CPTED Applications
" How Design and Use of the Physical Environment Affects the Behavior of Normal and Abnormal Users of Space.
" How CPTED Relates to the Local Government Functions of Planning, Housing, Traffic Control and Inner City Revitalization
" Steps Required in Conducting a CPTED Review of Proposed Site Plans of Existing Facilities
" Practical Exercises #1
" Critiques of Site Plans.

Day 3
" CPTED Applications (con't)
" Using CPTED Concepts and Strategies to Help Eliminate or Control Problem Businesses and High Crime Housing Locations
" Designing Safer Schools
" Using the 3-D Approach to Assess Proposed and Existing Site Plans and Blueprints
" Techniques of Site Assessment
" Practical Exercise #2
" Critiques of Blueprints

Day 4
" Use of Light and Color in Behavioral Management
" Local CPTED Codes and Ordinances
" Practical Exercise #3
" Visits to Field Sites
" CPTED in the 21st Century

Day 5
" Team Reports
" Special Topics
" CPTED Review
" Course Examination

Course Logistics
The cost of attending the five-day Basic CPTED Certification Seminar is $550.00. If more than one person from the same department attends the seminar, the cost for each participant is $500.00.

This includes the registration fee, extensive handout materials, and refreshment breaks.

The fee does not include travel, lodging or other food expenses.

Course Instructors

Art Hushen is the President of the National Institute of Crime Prevention.Art was assigned to the Tampa Police Department's Special Operations Bureau / CPTED Section.  Mr. Hushen was instrumental in the creation of the Department's CPTED Unit and Tampa's first CPTED Ordinance for the Westshore Business District, which is the largest Business District in Florida.He implemented the CPTED review process for the Tampa Parks Department Greenways and Trails Master Plan, which include over 80 miles of trails.He worked with the Tampa Housing Authority on their Hope VI program and was part of the task force implementing the design guidelines.He recently completed the CPTED review process for the West Tampa Overlay District and the Tampa Lighting Initiative.Art also completed the City of Tampa's Downtown Security Guideline requirements under the Mayor of Tampa's Downtown Initiative.Art received his Crime Prevention Practitioner Certification and CPTED Designation through the Florida Crime Prevention Training Institute where he assisted in the creation of the Advanced CPTED program and the State standards for the CPTED Designation.

Mr. Hushen is an instructor for the Florida Attorney General's Office specializing in Basic and Advanced CPTED and CPTED in Schools.He is also an Adjunct Instructor for Fox Valley Technical College specializing in CPTED.Art is recognized as a Crime Prevention Specialist through the International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners and is a graduate of the National Crime Prevention Institute, Fox Valley College, and the American Crime Prevention Institute in both Basic and Advanced CPTED.He is the President of the National Institute of Crime Prevention, a national training company.Art holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology from the University of South Florida.Art is Past Chair of the Florida CPTED Network (FCN), Past President of the Sun Coast Crime Prevention Association, and past Board Member of the International CPTED Association (ICA).He is a member of the American Planning Association (APA), and the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS).He retired from the Tampa Police Department in 2006.