The criminal planning cycle can take seconds, days, weeks or months – depending upon the complexity of the crime and sophistication of the criminals – opportunist or organised group.
Though the process remains the same.
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The Criminal Planning Cycle
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The criminal planning cycle can take seconds, days, weeks or months – depending upon the complexity of the crime and sophistication of the criminals – opportunist or organised group.
Though the process remains the same.
#ruralcrime
Understanding the Criminal Planning Cycle, allows us to apply the Layered Approach to identify suspicious activity and stop the criminals before they have an opportunity to attack, when used effectively.
Our responsibility may start at the perimeter of the property, but our security starts in the surrounding area - in the local community.
The “Layered Approach" – some times referred to as “layers of the onion” based on the concentric circles that you see when you cut open an onion. The layered approach comprises the Surrounding Area, the Perimeter, Defensible Space and finally the Asset (which the criminals are trying to steal from you). It should be noted that you may have numerous Assets, each within the same Surrounding Area, Perimeter and Defensible Space but the Asset will have its own final layer of security measures.
To illustrate this, a farm may have an expensive tractor (Asset 1) secured in a barn, a car (Asset 2) locked in a garage, and money (Asset 3) stored in a safe in the house. Each has their own last layer of security but collectively they are all within the same Defensible Space, contained within the same Perimeter boundary and are within the same Surrounding Area.
Our responsibility may start at the perimeter of the property, but our security starts in the surrounding area - in the local community.
The “Layered Approach" – some times referred to as “layers of the onion” based on the concentric circles that you see when you cut open an onion. The layered approach comprises the Surrounding Area, the Perimeter, Defensible Space and finally the Asset (which the criminals are trying to steal from you). It should be noted that you may have numerous Assets, each within the same Surrounding Area, Perimeter and Defensible Space but the Asset will have its own final layer of security measures.
To illustrate this, a farm may have an expensive tractor (Asset 1) secured in a barn, a car (Asset 2) locked in a garage, and money (Asset 3) stored in a safe in the house. Each has their own last layer of security but collectively they are all within the same Defensible Space, contained within the same Perimeter boundary and are within the same Surrounding Area.
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"The Layered Approach" in action... detection in the Surrounding Area by Northumbria Police Rural Crime Volunteers, disrupting and preventing criminal activity.
The Criminal Planning Cycle and the Layered Approach.
I'd like to refresh members of the above two videos,
their importance in your security thinking/approach, and how the two are related.
By investing in your 'first line of defence', by taking an interest in what is happening in the surrounding area to your property, you will disrupt the criminals during their target selection and planning phase. The criminals will move on to a softer, easier target.
Conversely, by not taking an interest in your 'first line of defence' and the surrounding area, advertises to the criminals your lack of serious interest in your security, and communicates 'vulnerable', or 'soft target'.
Don't be that soft, easy target.
I'd like to refresh members of the above two videos,
their importance in your security thinking/approach, and how the two are related.By investing in your 'first line of defence', by taking an interest in what is happening in the surrounding area to your property, you will disrupt the criminals during their target selection and planning phase. The criminals will move on to a softer, easier target.
Conversely, by not taking an interest in your 'first line of defence' and the surrounding area, advertises to the criminals your lack of serious interest in your security, and communicates 'vulnerable', or 'soft target'.
Don't be that soft, easy target.
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