Summary
"In January 1992, the Peel Regional Police Crime Prevention Services were asked to assist a local high school principal
with a “trespass” problem at the Turner Fenton campus. Police responded by conducting a thorough Crime Prevention
Through Environmental Design (CPTED) analysis and review of the 2,000 student school. As a result of that review
Police realized that the trespass problem was merely symptomatic of a greater crime problem which could be
significantly acted upon by a CPTED redesign. With this understanding Police created a 64 page document entitled “A
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Study of the Turner Fenton Secondary School”. That document
proposed a comprehensive and successful redesign of the exterior layout of the school which, for the price of a single
classroom renovation, all but eliminated the trespass problem while reducing the year of year police occurrences between
85-95% for the past five years."--Executive summary.