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Prevent Graffiti

Graffiti prevention measures aim to try to reduce the opportunities for offending as well as encourage ownership and natural observation of areas by residents as a means of discouraging intruders.

The success of graffiti prevention measures is dependent on the extent of the graffiti issue. Local problems need local solutions, so each community will have its own specific issues which will influence how they best respond to graffiti vandalism.

Local councils use of a range of initiatives to address graffiti, including:

• graffiti reporting hotlines, with dedicated phone numbers for residents and businesses to report instances of graffiti
• access to graffiti removal services that are free or discounted to residents and business
• access to graffiti clean-up products (e.g. graffiti removal kits, paint and anti-graffiti coating vouchers) that are free or discounted to residents and business
• providing financial and other support to community groups that seek to clean-up graffiti
• establishing partnership approaches, including a partnership with the Community Correctional Services Graffiti Removal Program to clean-up graffiti using low-risk offenders on community work orders; working with community groups to deliver projects under the State Government’s Graffiti Clean-up Community Grants program; and working with local police and their Crime Prevention Officers to address graffiti locally.

While most of the following graffiti prevention strategies are funded and/or delivered by state government and local councils, some are also utilised by community groups, residents and local business to address local graffiti issues:

• reporting graffiti
• graffiti removal information, including paint-out and protective coatings
• designing-out graffiti
• legislation to deter graffiti offenders
• education and diversionary initiatives.