Designing for Safety: CPTED Applications

Implementing a Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) program is essential for organizations aiming to improve safety, reduce crime, and enhance community well-being.

CPTED emphasizes collaboration among design and security professionals, architects, public safety professionals, and corporations to implement design elements that enhance safety. It’s about building a sense of ownership and accountability, designing spaces inviting and secure for everyone

Art Hushen

An Adjunct Professor at the University of South Florida where he teaches CPTED in the Department of Criminology. He is a thirty-year law enforcement officer having retired from the Tampa Police Departments Special Operations Division. While assigned to the Division, he was instrumental in the creation of the first CPTED Unit in the country and Tampa’s first of many CPTED Ordinances under planning and zoning.

As the Founder of NICP, Inc., Art continues a similar process of implementing CPTED concepts and strategies at an international level through training programs and consulting with various government, private sector, and nonprofit groups. Through the implementation of the CPTED Professional Designation (CPD) Program the NICP has set a standard for professional recognition for those earning the CPD. The NICP’s training program is recognized and certified by a variety of local and federal law enforcement agencies, corporations, and codified by cities throughout the US.