Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)

Red Zone Tactics and Consulting offers custom CPTED inspections to minimize your properties’ liabilities.

What is CPTED?

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design is a way of designing buildings, communities, and public spaces to make them less attractive to criminals and safer for everyone.

What is the purpose of this Crime Prevention Law?

The law, signed in March of 2023, requires a CPTED Security Assessment that is less than three years old for multifamily residential properties before January 1, 2025.

The property owner or principal operator, which substantially implements CPTED security measures, has a presumption against liability in connection with a crime that occurs on the premises.

Florida CPTED Law

Benefits of Implementing CPTED:

  • Safer public spaces where people feel more secure.
  • More attractive and welcoming environments for residents and visitors.
  • Lower crime rates due to the design making it harder for criminals to operate.

Florida’s CPTED Law FAQs

CPTED stands for Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. It’s a way of designing buildings and public spaces to make them less attractive to criminals and safer for everyone.

The new law aims to reduce crime and enhance safety in communities by requiring certain design standards that make public places safer.

The law primarily targets new constructions and major renovations of public buildings and spaces, such as parks, schools, and commercial areas. It may also impact residential complexes.

  • Better Lighting: Ensuring that public areas are well-lit so that people can see and be seen, which deters criminal activities.
  • Clear Visibility: Designing spaces so that people can easily see their surroundings. This might include trimming bushes, placing windows in strategic locations, and avoiding hidden corners.
  • Controlled Access: Using fences, gates, and pathways to clearly define public and private areas, making it harder for unauthorized people to access certain spaces.
  • Maintenance: Keeping public areas clean and well-maintained to signal that the area is cared for and monitored.

  • Safer public spaces where people feel more secure.
  • Lower crime rates due to the design making it harder for criminals to operate.
  • More attractive and welcoming environments for residents and visitors.

In essence, Florida’s new CPTED law is about using thoughtful design to create safer and more secure public spaces, making communities better places to live, work, and visit.

A CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) practitioner can help an apartment complex comply with the new Florida CPTED law through several key steps:

  1. Assessment and Evaluation:
    • Site Analysis
    • Crime Data Review
  2. Design Recommendations:
    • Lighting
    • Visibility and Natural Surveillance
    • Access Control
    • Maintenance Plans
  3. Implementation Support:
    • Collaboration with Architects, Planners, and Site Managers.
    • Project Oversight
  4. Training and Education:
    • Staff Training
    • Resident Engagement
  5. Ongoing Evaluation and Adaptation:
    • Regular Audits
    • Feedback Loop

By providing these services, a CPTED practitioner ensures that the apartment complex not only meets the requirements of the new Florida CPTED law but also creates a safer, more secure living environment for its residents.

A law enforcement agency or certified Florida Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Practitioner (FCP).

How can Red Zone Help?

Red Zone Tactics and Consultants will ensure your community complies with the new Florida CPTED law, creating a safer and more secure living environment for all residents.

We provide custom CPTED assessments to minimize your properties’ liabilities, adhering to the guidelines outline in the Florida State Statute 768.0706 concerning Multi-Family Safety and Security.

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