The latest police techniques to reduce crime and keep local communities safe will be presented at the ‘Designing Out Crime Zone’, which is part of The Security Event at the NEC, Birmingham on 9-11 April 2019.
The crime zone is being supported by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative, which has undertaken pioneering work to raise security standards with the construction industry and with the Government to embed designing out crime into the planning process.
SBD trained Designing Out Crime Officers, who are based in police forces around the country, work with architects, developers and local authority planners to design out crime at the planning stage.
This work involves including physical security into buildings, such as robust doors, windows and locks as well as crime prevention techniques into the surrounding layout and landscaping, such as lots of natural surveillance and limiting excessive through movement so visitors can be seen and potential hiding places avoided.
More than one million homes have been built to police crime prevention standards – that’s approximately one-third of all new homes since SBD was launched in 1989 with reductions in crime of up to 87% - helping hard-pressed police forces to cope with heavy demands on their services.
Other key partners involved in The Security Event are the Cross-Sector Security and Safety Communications (CSSC) initiative and West Midlands Police, who run a number of initiatives radiating out across the region from the UKs second city, Birmingham.
Information about the work of the West Midlands’ Designing Out Crime Team and the Regional Organised Crime Unit with its Regional Cyber Crime Unit, will be available.