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David Kester, Chief Executive of the UK Design Council; Professor Jeremy Myerson, Professor of Design Studies at the Royal College of Art; Professor Gloria Laycock, Director of the UCL Centre for Security and Crime Science; and Professor Lorraine Gamman, Director of the Design Against Crime Research Centre at Central St Martins School of Art and Design. What do these four designers have in common? They're all crimefighters.

"Designing Out Crime" is the UK's effort to reduce lawbreaking through clever and innovative design.

Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker says:

"...Designing out crime is about sustainable and innovative design of products, spaces and places to make crime unattractive and make communities feel safer... We must maximise the influence good design can have in the fight against crime."

Ian McInnes from the Association of Chief Police Officers Crime Prevention Initiatives:

"There are excellent examples to show designing-out crime works. The police service supports the Alliance to build on these examples and encourage more designers and manufacturers to address crime risk at the design stage. Neither crime nor unattractive add-on security need be a regular consequence of purchasing homes, consumer technology, or services."

So how exactly do they do it? Details are too numerous to list here, but you can check out the full-fledged PR description at this link.