This document provides recommendations for improving school security and reducing environmental security issues. It recommends providing a secure boundary around the school property with limited access points. The building design should allow for natural surveillance from windows and avoid hidden areas. Roofs, windows, doors and parking areas should be securely designed and well-lit to deter crime and anti-social behavior. Various security measures are outlined including alarms, lighting, fencing and storage of valuable equipment.
This document provides recommendations for improving school security and reducing environmental security issues. It recommends providing a secure boundary around the school property with limited access points. The building design should allow for natural surveillance from windows and avoid hidden areas. Roofs, windows, doors and parking areas should be securely designed and well-lit to deter crime and anti-social behavior. Various security measures are outlined including alarms, lighting, fencing and storage of valuable equipment.
This document provides recommendations for improving school security and reducing environmental security issues. It recommends providing a secure boundary around the school property with limited access points. The building design should allow for natural surveillance from windows and avoid hidden areas. Roofs, windows, doors and parking areas should be securely designed and well-lit to deter crime and anti-social behavior. Various security measures are outlined including alarms, lighting, fencing and storage of valuable equipment.
This document provides recommendations for improving school security and reducing environmental security issues. It recommends providing a secure boundary around the school property with limited access points. The building design should allow for natural surveillance from windows and avoid hidden areas. Roofs, windows, doors and parking areas should be securely designed and well-lit to deter crime and anti-social behavior. Various security measures are outlined including alarms, lighting, fencing and storage of valuable equipment.
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Jovie D. Dacoycoy March 20, 2013
BS Criminology III
TECHNICAL WRITING NO. 12 WRITING A RECOMMENDATION
The following recommendations are an indication of the typical environmental security issues to be considered. Solutions will vary from site to site and will depend on the location and management style of the school. Provide a substantial secure boundary and limit access points for vehicles and pedestrians. Negotiate the removal of public rights of way across the site. Fences should be substantial and gates should be of a similar standard. A secure boundary is of primary importance to school security. It will reduce and allow the effective management of most crime and anti social behaviour problems that can be anticipated. Use landscaping to enhance security and resolve aesthetic issues. Limit and control the main access route for visitors to the school. Ensuring that it is direct, easily accessible and clearly signed. Importantly, main access routes should not allow opportunities for informal unsupervised access to other parts of the school. [Type the company name] | Technical Writing II 2
Keep the building shell simple in shape and plan form to aid surveillance and reduce hiding places. Avoid recesses or overhangs, which might provide opportunities for shelter, which could be abused. Consider and introduce where possible natural surveillance from windows across open spaces playgrounds and car parks. Roofs generally should be designed to inhibit casual access and avoid hiding places for intruders. Avoid flat roofs and weak security points such as roof lights and ventilators. Simple pitched roof shapes with robust eaves details are preferable. Avoid providing easy climbing facilities to roofs, which may be provided by rainwater down pipes, overflow pipes and low gutters. Steps provided by wall features or adjacent railings and other features should also be avoided. Assist surveillance around buildings and assist with staff personal safety with good quality energy efficient dusk to dawn lighting, which is vandal resistant. Avoid high lighting levels, which may produce threatening dark shadows. Secure car parking and cycle storage should be overlooked, well lit with limited access points. Cycle storage facilities should be capable of being locked up and secured. Secure windows and doors to be to 'Secured by Design' standard as a minimum Provide an Intruder alarm system linked to police response. [Type the company name] | Technical Writing II 3
Provide facilities to keep rubbish disposal away from buildings, keeping 'wheelie bins' and skips secure so they cannot provide opportunities for access to roofs or arson attack. Provide 'designed for purpose' secure areas where high value or vulnerable items of equipment are used. Provide appropriate secure storage facilities for high value portable equipment. Note the increased lap top computer use. In high risk areas consider shutters or grills for windows, sprinkler systems, facilities for CCTV and manned guarding.