Prevent Graffiti

Design crime is a crime prevention strategy designed to reduce crime opportunities by designing and managing building and landscape environments.

This is also called CPTED (pronounced "separation") and is an acronym for crime prevention by environmental design. It is based on the theory that "proper design and effective use of building environment can reduce crime fear and incidence and improve quality of life"

Graffiti was designed to apply CPTED principles to reduce graffiti and prevention. Western Australian police graffiti team developed information resources for community members and property owners to apply these principles to design graffiti. To download the Designing out Graffiti brochure, please click here.

The graffiti team also developed a series of information guides on specific aspects of graffiti design. Please download the guide by clicking the link below.

Implementing a CPTED audit can help identify areas where you can implement the principles of design graffiti. Click here to download CPTED review checklist.

* Do not forget to consult the local council to understand structural changes / additions to your property to ensure compliance with local building standards *

For other crime prevention materials, please visit the WA Police Publications page.

Vandalism vandalism has a serious impact on individuals and communities. Eliminating and preventing vandalism by graffiti is extremely expensive for the community. Tens of millions of taxpayers clean up graffiti each year and spend money to fix the damage it causes. Using this public money to purify graffiti means not to spend money on what benefits the community. Vandalism vandalism can be a dangerous activity. Graffiti is often used in dangerous places such as train tracks, train passages, train tunnels. Independent Traffic Safety Reliability Regulatory Authority (ITSRR) reports that most of the railway deaths in the railway network are intruders of the railway network.

In this volume on the prevention of vandalism and graffiti, we study the criminal theory of vandalism and explain the planning, management, architecture and design strategy to minimize public transportation and public places, public phones. Destruction and graffiti inside and outside the area. School and Public Housing Oscar Newman (1972) proposed a "Defense Space" theory in groundbreaking research on crime and disturbance of public housing. In short, Newman discovered that corridors, skyscrapers, elevators, halls, shelters, roofs and other buildings of high-rise buildings are isolated from public surveillance than low-rise buildings. His solution is to redesign the apartment building so that public places are always monitored by some residents.

Managing vandalism by graffiti includes assessing vandalism, destroying vandalism, protecting against further surface damage, and preventing recurrence of vandalism. Gravity vandalism management is the responsibility of everyone, including households, retailers, business park landlords and tenants, utility companies, educational institutions, community groups, transportation companies and regional authorities. Simple Crime (Marking and Graffiti Destruction Law) Under the Amendment Law, judges can ask criminals for community activities such as mark release and graffiti damage. The maximum penalty for vandalism is a fine of $ 2,000 and / or community-based judgment. Since this measure also prohibits the sale of spray cans to people under the age of 18 and prohibits the actual use of spray cans inside the shop, it is impossible for ordinary people to enter without assistance of clerks can not.

How to stop Graffiti Guide to provide practical information to local governments, schools, companies, individuals