Inspector Mark Stokes

 Force Crime Reduction & Designing Out Crime Officer West Midlands Police

Title of presentation :Designing Out Crime and Designing in Safety works!  The experience in the United Kingdom and beyond

Mark Stokes has more than 33 years service with West Midlands Police, having devoted more than half that time to the relatively new discipline of Designing Out Crime - a more specialised form of situational crime prevention.  Indeed, he is now the longest serving police officer in this arena in the whole United Kingdom.  In 2002 Mark was invited to deliver the key note address on public area CCTV to the annual conference of the International Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Association, held in Calgary, Canada.  And in 2004 he delivered a lecture about the recently published 'Safer Places: the Planning System & Crime Prevention'.