Design Guides

Home Security - The Complete Handbook

Purchase Home Security - the Complete Handbook
Co-written by ACPO CPI Development Officer, Calvin Beckford this book provides easy-to-understand information and advice on making your home more secure.

Applicants for Secured by Design Awards should familiarise themselves with the relevant publication and then contact their local Police Architectural Liaison Officer for detailed assistance.

SBD Principles
SBD New Homes 2010
Refurbished Properties
Sheltered Accommodation
Multi-Storey Dwellings
Secure Railway Stations
Secure Caravan Parks

Play areas
SBD Schools 2010
SBD Hospitals
SBD Licensed Premises
SBD Home Security
Youth Shelters and Sports Systems

For more information on ACPO's Park Mark™ Safer Parking scheme, please click here.

Applications for a Secured by Design Award

All applications for a Secured by Design Award or other designing-out-crime advice on building developments should be made to the Crime Prevention Design Advisor (CPDA), sometimes called Architectural Liaison Officer (ALO), for the area where the premises are to be built. The ALO will require copies of plans and schedules of security specifications.

Click here for more information and a link to our Application Forms

For earlier versions of any of the above listed design guides and corresponding application forms click here.

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