SBD News

Businesses can now protect the physical security of their premises as well as their staff and work processes through a single organisation – Police Crime Prevention Initiatives (Police CPI).

Police CPI brings together Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative, which seeks to ‘design out crime’ through the layout and landscaping and physical security of buildings, and Secured Environments (SE), a police certification scheme, which focuses on protecting people from crime in the workplace and in many other types of buildings.

A film showing how Secured by Design (SBD), the national crime prevention initiative, is working with local authorities to reduce crime, is being shown as part of the Association of Public Service Excellence (APSE) conference in Oxford this week (6-7 September 2017).

The four-minute film (https://itnproductions.wistia.com/medias/nkbga1hhzv) was included in a specially-made series of programmes produced for the conference which has the theme of ‘Beyond austerity?’

Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative, will be joining one of its member companies - Bamford Doors - on their stand at the EEM Supply Chain Showcase in Nottingham, on Thursday, 14 September.

A watch which also functions as a phone and location tracking device so parents know where their children are playing, is one of the latest products to be accredited by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

Called WATCHU, it provides a link between the GPS Smart Watch, which is aimed at the 5-11 age range, and their parent or carer’s Smartphone.

As well as children, the device can also be used to help provide notification of the whereabouts of elderly and other vulnerable people.

Secured by Design member company, Mercury Glazing Supplies Ltd., has won a contract to supply their specialist sash windows to 200 homes in Brighton – a City with an illustrious history for South Coast fashion, elegance and style.

The company has been established as a specialist trade fabricator and supplier for 15 years. Their range includes PVC-u vertical sliders, PVC-u flush sash windows, timber vertical sliders, aluminium bi-fold doors and aluminium doors and windows. They are one of the UK’s biggest manufacturers of Spectus PVC-u vertical sliders, and along with being a Spectus approved window contractor have recently become an Excellence As Standard fabricator too.

Security specialist company Frontier Pitts has increased its range of products accredited by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

Their Platinum Security range of sliding and bi-folding gates has achieved Loss Prevention Standard (LPS) 1175 Security Rating 2 & 3 from BRE Global’s Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) and comes after months of research and development.

The largest residential development in London’s Square Mile on the site of St Bart’s Hospital, the oldest hospital in the country, has been designed to incorporate proven police crime prevention techniques into the built environment, such as the layout and landscaping, and into the physical security of buildings.

This security guidance has come from Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

GBW Panels, one of the leading panel, door panel and external composite door producers within Europe, has added a third doorset – Colordor Q – to its products accredited by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

From its modern 37,000 sq.ft. factory in Worcester employing 70 people, GBW has an annual output of 100,000 panels and 10,000 composite doors. These are used predominantly in domestic homes in both the new build and renovation sectors covering private and social housing as well as the commercial new build sector.

August 2017: Nearly seven years since Gate Safe became the first organisation to initiate a campaign for improved standards in automated gate safety, the charity marked another important milestone, as it celebrated hitting 1,000 installers on its acclaimed national register of Gate Safe Aware Installers.

The training session at Trade Skills 4 U – the UK’s no 1 provider of electrical training which regularly hosts Gate Safe Aware training – was attended by 17 delegates, including 4 from Acctive Systems, signifying 1,000 trained Gate Safe Aware installers in the UK.

A development of new homes in Portree, the main town on the Isle of Skye, has gained the highest award given by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative, for incorporating crime prevention techniques into the layout and landscaping and the physical security of buildings.

The SBD Gold Award was presented to Lochalsh & Skye Housing Association for their development at Pat Gordon Place, Portree, a bustling port, cultural centre and tourist destination on the east side of the island.

Secured by Design (SBD) member company, The Bereco Group, has rebranded with an environmental focus to bring the ‘eco’ back into ‘Bereco’.

Since 2003 Bereco has been supplying performance-engineered timber windows and doors to housebuilders and developers primarily supplying to new build homes around the UK.

A UK-based company specialising in providing perimeter technology such as barriers and bollards to prevent vehicle attacks, has renewed its membership with Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

Heald Ltd, based in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, is one of the largest manufacturers of security equipment in the UK with a global client base which includes military sites, presidential buildings, palaces, embassies, border controls, airports, oil refineries, stadia, banks, shopping malls and government buildings.