SBD News

Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative, had a constant stream of visitors throughout the London Build 2017 at Olympia on 25-26 October.

SBD Chief Operating Officer, Jon Cole, said SBD’s stand attracted lots of interest with some excellent feedback and business opportunities.

Students who cycle to their lectures at Glasgow Caledonian University have benefited from crime prevention advice from local police officers and Secured by Design member company, Master Lock, the world’s largest manufacturer of padlocks.

Having taken the time and effort to save up to buy a bike, students are being encouraged by police to spend a few more pounds on buying quality and sturdy locks in the wake of a spate of bike thefts in Glasgow City Centre by criminals carrying bolt cutters. Many students in Glasgow use their bikes to commute around the city where 60 bikes have been reported stolen in a two-month period.

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Devon & Cornwall Police, Alison Hernandez, has said that the ‘brilliant’ partnership work with police to design out crime at North Prospect in Plymouth, is an example of best practice that should be replicated on other new home developments.

The regeneration by Plymouth Community Homes has incorporated crime prevention techniques set by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

The first homes on a new housing development at Porsham Heights, Plymouth, have received a Gold Award from Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative, for the way they have been built to incorporate proven crime prevention techniques into the landscaping and physical security of properties.

A total of 29 homes on the site have been released by Plymouth Community Homes (PCH), Plymouth’s largest social housing provider. When the scheme is due to complete next year, PCH would have delivered a total of 67 homes – 42 for rent and 25 for shared ownership.

Many of the 4,000 new homes being built close to the fast-expanding Cambridge Biomedical Campus have been signed off as incorporating proven crime prevention techniques set by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

The Campus, which centres on Addenbrooke’s Hospital, is being developed as an international centre of clinical care, teaching and research. It is bringing together Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Cambridge, Papworth Hospital, drug companies like AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline, along with many other leading scientific and research based organisations, to create a world-class biomedical centre by the start of the 2020s.

BikeTrac, a company behind one of the UK’s most successful motorcycle tracking devices, has had its state-of-the-art tracking system and robust security equipment accredited by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

The largest housing development in the South West of England, which has had police crime prevention techniques embedded into the layout, landscaping and buildings from the outset, is showing significant reductions in crime long before it has been completed.

Work started regenerating North Prospect, which is two miles north of Plymouth City Centre, in 2011 with building scheduled for completion in 2022.

Kenny McHugh, SBD Development Officer, with Justin Freeman, of the MLA

Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative, is among more than 100 exhibitors expected at the Master Locksmiths Association’s ‘MLA Expo 17’ being hosted at the International Centre, Telford, Shropshire from 6-8 October.

A business that produces a blocking and safety device for your letterbox to prevent criminals fishing for your keys or using it as a means for arson and anti-social behaviour type attacks to your home, has renewed its membership with Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

Prestige Products has two main security products – MailGUARD, which is targeted at housing providers and the emergency services, and HomeGUARD, which is targeted at the private residential marketplace via the locksmith industry. Both these products have the same features and protect homes in the same way.

SentrySIS, an innovative online crime reporting and monitoring software, has received the police accredited Secured by Design accolade for its highly secure cloud-based software used by police constabularies, national retailers and crime partnerships.

A door and window company that only launched in May this year has joined Secured by Design (SDB), the national police crime prevention initiative.

Aston Lynch Building Supplies, of Wenlock Road, London, have had three of their doors and five of their windows – all PVC-U – certified to PAS 24 standards offering security suitable for domestic use and other buildings exposed to comparable risk.

National Home Security Month 2017 launches today (Monday, 2 October) to highlight the importance of home security during October – a month traditionally marked by a significant rise in burglaries throughout the country as the evenings get darker earlier.

The campaign focuses on providing advice about how to protect homes and possessions and reports that an estimated one in four households have no security measures in place at all.