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Support for successful Safer Streets Fund bids

Support for successful Safer Streets Fund bids

The Police Crime Prevention Academy is offering specialised support to Police & Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales who have been successful with their Safer Streets Fund bids.

Check An Invoice gains Digital Security Innovator accreditation

Check An Invoice gains Digital Security Innovator accreditation

Check An Invoice is the latest organisation to be recognised as a Digital Security Innovator by the Police Digital Security Centre (PDSC).

Vaylia: designing and building security projects to tested and recognised standards

Vaylia: designing and building security projects to tested and recognised standards

It’s not every security company whose personnel have been involved in protecting G8 conferences, nuclear summits, political party conventions, space rocket launch sites, oil and gas installations, prisons and Olympic and Commonwealth Games venues.

Rhino Aluminium join Secured by Design

Rhino Aluminium join Secured by Design

Rhino Aluminium is one of the latest companies to join Secured by Design (SBD), the official police security initiative.

Direct Path Solutions renew membership with SBD

Direct Path Solutions renew membership with SBD

Direct Path Solutions have renewed their membership with Secured by Design, the official police security initiative.

Lochrin Bain renew with Secured by Design

Lochrin Bain renew with Secured by Design

Cumbernauld’s Lochrin Bain is one of the latest companies to renew their membership with Secured by Design (SBD), the official police security initiative.

Watchtower Security Solutions join Secured by Design

Watchtower Security Solutions join Secured by Design

Watchtower Security Solutions is one of the latest companies to join Secured by Design (SBD), the official police security initiative.

How does remote monitoring work?

How does remote monitoring work?

The prevailing image of CCTV monitoring can be described as: ‘one person maintains an unblinking vigil of a huge array of screens, looking for developing offenses’.

NEOS Protect praises SBD for giving it ‘key market focus’ to secure properties

NEOS Protect praises SBD for giving it ‘key market focus’ to secure properties

A company specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of an extensive range of access controlled communal entrance doors and glazed screens for the housing, education and commercial sectors, has renewed its membership with Secured by Design (SBD), the official police security initiative.

West Midlands Police staff praised after attaining specialist crime prevention qualifications

West Midlands Police staff praised after attaining specialist crime prevention qualifications

West Midlands Police Design Out Crime manager Mark Silvester has paid tribute to a number of the force’s staff who have successfully completed specialist accredited crime prevention qualifications through the Police Crime Prevention Academy.

Signals at go for police railway safety scheme

Signals at go for police railway safety scheme

Train operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has a 50-strong, in-house team of Rail Enforcement Officers who work alongside Officers from British Transport Police (BTP) every day to help keep the railway network safe for passengers and staff.

Diploma for Crime Prevention Design Advisor at the University of Oxford

Diploma for Crime Prevention Design Advisor at the University of Oxford

Lesley Nesbitt, Crime Prevention Design Advisor (CPDA) at the University of Oxford, has gained the Police Crime Prevention Academy’s Level 5 Diploma in Crime Prevention – Designing Out Crime. This is the recognised qualification for police Designing Out Crime Officers (DOCOs) as well as those in roles that involve providing specialist advice on the subject.