CPTED Ontario was formed in 2001 to promote the understanding and implementation of CPTED principles to create safer communities in Ontario.

Specifically, CPTED Ontario addresses community safety through the identification of crime issues and promotion of CPTED solutions. A "partnering against crime" approach is the key to the organization's efforts to establish partnerships, communications and co-ordination with the general public and stakeholders, and ownership of community-based CPTED initiatives.

Read our mission statement, and code of ethics here.

We now have an informational pamphlet available. When you join CPTED Ontario, you will receive a copy. If you would like a copy, or copies sent to you, please email info@cptedontario.ca, tell us how many you need, and the purpose for which you wish to use the pamphlet(s), and we'll be in touch. Click here to download a PDF document of the Guidelines for the Basic Level, four-day course.

History

The inaugural meeting of the Ontario CPTED Association, now known as CPTED Ontario, was held at Sir Sanford Fleming College on April 25th, 2000. The meeting, organized by Cst. Tom McKay of Peel Regional Police, gathered 17 individuals from a variety of backgrounds for the purpose of establishing a CPTED Association modeled after the Florida CPTED Network.

A positive response was followed up by a series of meetings which eventually grew to include discussions between this fledgling organization and the members of the Board of the CPTED Institute, a philosophically similar, yet dormant, organization incorporated by Ruth Marland Bryan in 1999. These discussions eventually led the CPTED Institute to change its operating name to CPTED Ontario and the establishment of the first and, to this day, only provincial CPTED organization in Canada and the second such organization of its kind in all of North America.

The fledgling organization quickly went about the business of organizing its first one day conference in partnership with the Mississauga CPTED Advisory Committee, Peel CPTED Advisory Committee and Peel Regional Police during this period of amalgamation . The workshop, held on Monday November 5th, 2001 at the City of Mississauga’s Noel Ryan Theatre in the Central Library, featured renowned CPTED trainer and author Timothy D. Crowe. The workshop was a resounding success having attracted 189 registrants.

In 2005, the organization developed a mission and vision statement along with a Code of Ethics. CPTED Ontario continues to organize a workshop/conference on an annual basis. In 2009 the organization took a major step towards developing a standard for basic CPTED training by establishing core curriculum.

CPTED Ontario Past Directors

Cst. Laurel Barnett, Halton Regional Police

Cst. Gregg Davidson, Halton Regional Police Service

Cst. Dave Dawson, Niagara Regional Police

Mike Fenton, Paragon Security

Terrence Glover, CPT, MCIP, RPP, City of Brantford Planning

Cst. Caroline Kennedy, Ontario Provincial Police

Sgt. Ted Kitto, Owen Sound Police

Sgt. Mark Lawrence, York Regional Police

Cst. Jim Lawson, Toronto Police Service

Monica Lees, York Regional Police

Det. Sgt. Donnie MacDonald, Ontario Provincial Police

Ruth Marland, City of Mississauga

Anne McIlroy, Principal, Brook, McIlroy Architects

Robert Metail BIO, Architectural Security Consultant, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Inspector John Periversoff,, Ontario Provincial Police

Shane Rechner, Sears Canada

Sgt. Bill van Ryswyk, Second Vice Chair, Ottawa Police Service

Demetrios Skillaris, Ministry of the Solicitor General, Province of Ontario

Cst. Janet Small, Ontario Provincial Police

Cst. Melody Tourigny BIO, Ontario Provincial Police

Cst. Art Wong, Ottawa Police Service

Terry Wright, First Vice-Chair, York University Security Service

Sgt. David J. Thomas, Ontario Provincial Police

Martin Bass, CFE, CPP, CRM, Risk Management / Business Continuity Advisor, The Co-operators

Honour Roll

Timothy D. Crowe, renowned criminologist and author of the text book on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design,