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    • CCTV/ Video Surveillance
          • CCTV/Video Surveillance

            CCTV surveillance solutions can help reduce crime and provide valuable insight and documentation for businesses.

    • Access Control
          • Access Control

            Access control is a tool by which you can maintain security of your premises locally or remotely.

    • Time & Attendance
          • Time & Attendance

            Effective time management systems are frameworks and techniques designed to help people manage their time better

    • Physical Security
          • Physical Security

            An electric fence is a powerful perimeter intruder detection system which can be attached to an existing perimeter fence or wall.

    • Alarm & Detection
          • Alarm & Detection

            Installing reliable alarm detection solutions is the easiest way for businesses to help prevent break-ins.

    • Preventing Fire
          • Preventing Fire

            The goal of fire prevention is to ensure the relevant personnel such as family members and staffs are adequately educated

    • Detecting Fire
          • Detecting Fire

            Whilst the main focus of your fire protection strategy should be to prevent fire, should a fire accidentally break out

    • Containing Fire
          • Containing Fire

            This involves reducing the heat output of a fire, reducing the area over which the fire exists or suppressing or extinguishing the fire.

    • Escaping Fire
          • Escaping Fire

            No fire safety strategy is complete without the final part of the plan – escaping fire safely.

    • Building Management
          • Building Management

            Building Management Services(BMS) provide a single sea for monitoring and control

    • Small Medium Businesses
          • Small Medium Businesses

            Opticom has a proven track record of working with small and medium sized businesses.

    • Multi-Site Operations
          • Multi-site Operations

            Multi-site organisations face additional challenges in protecting their employees, customers, premises and assets from the threat of fire and theft.

    • Major Projects
          • Major Projects

            In today’s fast-moving world, one of the most important aspects in safeguarding national or corporate security is information.

    • Smart Construction
          • Smart Construction

            Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is based on the principle that proper design and effective use of buildings and public spaces

    • Finance Solutions
          • Financial Solutions

            A financial institution’s reputation and profitability are based on how well it proves to customers that it is serious about protecting their assets and investments.

    • Educational Institutions
          • Educational Institutions

            When enrolling a child into school, one of the frequent concerns for parents is usually how safe the institution is.

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What is CPTED

CPTED is the ‘proper design and effective use of the built environment that can lead to a reduction in the fear of incidence of crime and an improvement in quality of life. The goal of CPTED is to reduce opportunities for crime that may be inherent in the design of structures or in the design of neighborhoods’ (Gamman, 2013).

 

Understanding CPTED

The Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, CPTED, concept, is mainly attributed by the representation of a proper design and effective use of the built environment, which will lead to reduction in incidences and fear of crime, this will otherwise bring about peace of mind for those within the building. Similarly, in a situation whereby a site is laid out well, the likelihood of it being targeted for a crime may be reduced.

Most criminals or ill-minded individuals, usually take their time learning and finding loopholes in a building or site before attacking or caring out of malicious activities. CPTED takes crime prevention one step further by studying the site design and working with the development team in an attempt to create safer designs in new and also existing buildings.

CPTED can also be employed by architects to help design safer buildings and homes in a community.

At Opticom we help identify problem areas and properties that are crime risks or could become future crime risks without appropriate attention. We then focus on eliminating factors which attract crime and violence, such as improper zoning, trash accumulation and health and fire hazards, thereby reducing future victimization.

Good security is good business, through properly laid out CPTED strategies you’ll be able to expand the benefits derived from security systems by allowing the enterprise to do more with less. Let’s help you achieve that; contact us, 020 2686857 / 020 7909011 info@opticom.co.ke.

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