Measure type: Removing means

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Removing means is the measure of reducing risk by ensuring the tools or other means conductive to crime are not available.

Description

This is the alteration of the means to criminal or aggressive behaviour by making such means less available, less accessible, or less potentially injurious:

  1. Control over sales of spray paint and indelible markers
  2. Removal of debris from construction/demolition sites
  3. Removal of waste paper, rubbish, and other combustibles
  4. Use of tamperproof screws
  5. Placement of permanent signs, building names, and decorative hardware out of reach from ground
  6. Placement of school thermostats, fire alarms, and light switches far

from "hang-out" areas

Examples

Essential conditions

Requirements to the urban environment

Effectiveness

Side effects

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