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Starglaze Celebrates 25 Years with Secured by Design

Starglaze Celebrates 25 Years with Secured by Design

Starglaze is celebrating 25 years of membership with Secured by Design (SBD), marking a quarter of a century of commitment to manufacturing high-quality windows and doors that help make homes and buildings more secure. 

Sports Presenter Chamatkar Sandhu Chooses Asgard Storage

Sports Presenter Chamatkar Sandhu Chooses Asgard Storage

Sports presenter Chamatkar Sandhu has taken delivery of a Secured by Design accredited Centurion metal garden shed from Asgard Secure Steel Storage. 

David Lucy Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Crime Prevention

David Lucy Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for Crime Prevention

David has shown exceptional leadership as the supervisor of the NE London Team, guiding 11 officers with professionalism, clarity, and a strong commitment to reducing crime across North East London. ATLAS nomination.

SelectaDNA's #StopToolTheft Campaign Passes 1.7m Tools & Equipment Marked

SelectaDNA's #StopToolTheft Campaign Passes 1.7m Tools & Equipment Marked

Secured by Design member SelectaDNA, the UK's leading forensic marking brand, has announced that its #StopToolTheft campaign has now marked over 1.7m tools & equipment since June 2024 - more than eight times the 200,000-tool milestone it passed just seven months earlier, in January 2026.

ATLAS DOCOs of the Year: Making homes safer for domestic abuse victims

ATLAS DOCOs of the Year: Making homes safer for domestic abuse victims

"Since April 2025, these two Designing Out Crime Officers have provided specialist safeguarding support to 226 high-risk victims of domestic abuse...applying SBD Sanctuary principles with care and precision, ensuring that tailored safety measures are recommended and implemented through determined partnership working."  ATLAS nomination.

New Anglesey Development Delivers Safe and Secure Homes for Local Families

New Anglesey Development Delivers Safe and Secure Homes for Local Families

The first phase of a new social housing development on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales, has achieved a Secured by Design Gold Development Award, helping to provide safe and secure new homes for local families.

ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award Recognises Met DOCO

ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award Recognises Met DOCO

Metropolitan Police Designing Out Crime Officer (DOCO) Rob Harrison has been recognised with an ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award for his significant contribution to Designing Out Crime throughout a career spanning more than 25 years in policing.

Remington and Pulford Road Development Receives SBD Medium Housing Development Award

Remington and Pulford Road Development Receives SBD Medium Housing Development Award

A housing development at 80-90 Remington Road and 118 Pulford Road, London, has received the Secured by Design (SBD) Medium Housing Development Award, recognising excellence in designing out crime within a development of 11 to 49 homes.

The Key Safe Company Welcomes His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire for Award Event

The Key Safe Company Welcomes His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire for Award Event

Secured by Design member The Key Safe Company, a leading access management company, put one of its award-winning products through a live attack test as it received one of the UK's most prestigious business honours.

ALTAS Lifetime Achievement Award Recognises Lincolnshire DOCO

ALTAS Lifetime Achievement Award Recognises Lincolnshire DOCO

Lincolnshire Police Designing Out Crime Officer (DOCO) John Manuel has been recognised with an ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to Designing Out Crime and his specialist work in suicide prevention.

DOCOs get behind the scenes of security testing and certification

DOCOs get behind the scenes of security testing and certification

Designing Out Crime Officers (DOCOs) from seven police forces were given an insight into the testing and certification of security products during a visit to ER Certification Ltd and ERC Testing Ltd in Leigh.

Designing Out Crime at Iconic Oval Village Development

Designing Out Crime at Iconic Oval Village Development

The Oval Village Gasworks development in London has won the Superscale Development Award at the Secured by Design (SBD) ATLAS 2026 Awards, recognising the extensive work undertaken to incorporate crime prevention and security measures into one of London’s most distinctive new developments.