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• Introduction to Crime Prevention & CPS Certification - North Olmsted, Ohio Class 02-2025

  • Start
    Tuesday, September 02, 2025
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    Thursday, September 04, 2025
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    4:30 PM
  • Location
    North Olmsted Police 5871 Canterbury Rd. North Olmsted, OH 44070
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  • Registered
    5 registrants

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  North Olmsted, Ohio Police Department

  
  

  The CPS Certification is also recognized in Indiana and Wisconsin, and 24 hours of Indiana ILETB is approved. 

  
  

  The Ohio Crime Prevention Association will be presenting a three-day Introduction to Crime Prevention Course for sworn and non-sworn professionals interested in beginning crime prevention initiatives or those interested in refreshing their knowledge. Effective Crime Prevention has been seen as a key strategy in reducing crime and violence in our communities. This comprehensive course is designed to address local community needs, ranging from physical security to violence prevention. The course is tailored to the needs of today’s crime prevention and community policing practitioners, with a strong emphasis on programmatic initiatives. It provides practitioners with the knowledge, tools, and resources necessary to perform their jobs successfully. 

  
  

  Crime Prevention is the anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and the initiation of some action to remove or reduce it. Crime Prevention means working in partnership, rather than in isolation, and working with concerned citizens to address ways to prevent crime and drug abuse. It means communities and individual citizens learning how to protect themselves and to work together to keep their neighborhoods crime and drug-free. It means law enforcement working with communities, businesses, and service organizations to develop action plans based on information about crime and other problems.

  
  

  TOPICS TO BE COVERED INCLUDE:

  
  

  History & Theory of Crime Prevention: Historical overview, theory, and practice

  
  

  Professional Resource & Development: Community programs, youth issues and

  programs, crime analysis, crime prevention marketing, presentation and facilitation, time management, identity, and growing potential leaders, challenges

  
  

  Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design: Security Surveys

  
  

  Physical Security: Burglary prevention, facility security, farm/rural crime prevention, loss prevention

  
  

  Personal Safety and Security: Personal safety, crime prevention for youth, crime

  prevention for seniors, prevention of cyber-crimes, violence prevention

  
  

  INSTRUCTORS

  Instructors are known in their profession throughout Ohio with multiple years of expertise in law enforcement, crime prevention, and loss prevention. All instructors for this course are Ohio Certified Crime Prevention Specialists, are active in their profession, and are members of and certified to instruct by the Ohio Crime Prevention Association.

  
  

  
  

  TRAINING INFORMATION

  $375.00 for the 3-day course. Training will be held daily from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with an open lunch break. The Crime Prevention Specialist Exam (CPS) is included with registration cost and will be offered on the last day of the course. Training registration includes: training materials, networking opportunities, a certificate of completion upon successful exam passing, a CPS certificate, and a uniform pin.  And, Ohio BMV produced a CPS license plate. Lodging is the responsibility of each attendee. Also included is a one-year membership to OCPA.  Note: To maintain your CPS certification, you must stay current with your OCPA membership. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

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  Questions: 

  Contact  PRESIDENT JOHN DIPIETRO

  Email:  John.dipietro@ocpa-oh.org

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