CRIME PREVENTION EXPERT TO SPEAK.Byline: GIDEON RUBIN Staff Writer PALMDALE -- A city official will be among featured speakers at a prestigious national crime-prevention conference later this month in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . Crime Prevention Specialist Lisa Scales will discuss the city's Crime Prevention Through Innovative Design program at the National Institute of Crime Prevention Conference at the Riviera Hotel and Casino. Scales helped develop the Palmdale program, which emphasizes creating physical conditions that are conducive con·du·cive adj. Tending to cause or bring about; contributive: working conditions not conducive to productivity. See Synonyms at favorable. to public safety. She is the only Californian speaking at the conference, which features law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). from around the world and runs July 30-Aug. 1. "It's an honor to represent our city and our state," Scales said. "I think it's great when another agency wants to know about your program." Scales said Palmdale's program is unique because it incorporates three core principles -- territoriality Territoriality Behavior patterns in which an animal actively defends a space or some other resource. One major advantage of territoriality is that it gives the territory holder exclusive access to the defended resource, which is generally associated with , surveillance and access control -- in the planning stages of development, not once the project is completed, when it's usually too late. The principles are used to control the flow of human traffic between private, public and semi-private areas, Scales said. She said the city has added two additional planning principles: requiring developers to provide maintenance and operational security procedures. The program applies to housing and business developments, Scales said. Scales' 21-year public safety career includes serving on an undercover contraband contraband, in international law, goods necessary or useful in the prosecution of war that a belligerent may lawfully seize from a neutral who is attempting to deliver them to the enemy. and black-market unit in Panama, and a nine-year stint with the San Marino San Marino, city, United States San Marino (săn mərē`nō), residential city (1990 pop. 12,959), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1913. Of interest is the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Police Department. Scales also is credited with developing the curriculum for the city's merchant-fraud program. The program features courses on identifying credit card and check fraud, detecting counterfeit To falsify, deceive, or defraud. A copy or imitation of something that is intended to be taken as authentic and genuine in order to deceive another. A counterfeit coin is one that may pass for a genuine coin and may include a lower denomination coin altered so that it may money and preventing robberies, burglary and identity theft. gideon.rubin@dailynews.com (661) 267-7802 |
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