SBD News

Exova, the global testing, calibration and advisory service provider, launched its new testing laboratory supersite at Wednesbury, West Midlands, on Tuesday 6 June.

Special guests and industry representatives were invited to take part in a tour around the new 50,000 square foot testing facility, which brings together facilities from three separate sites into one single location, with the move having been successfully completed on time and within budget.

The LHC, a major provider of purchasing arrangements to help publicly funded organisations involved in the construction, refurbishment and maintenance of social housing and public buildings, has launched its first ever agreement for Communal Entrance Doorsets with the full support and involvement of Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

The launch of the Communal Entrance Doorsets framework agreement marks a significant milestone for SBD because it is the first time SBD has been involved in the formulation of a framework agreement with the LHC.

Secured by Design (SBD) member company Cyclepods has launched its biggest and most secure cycle hub in the London Borough of Waltham Forest just a few metres from busy Leyton Underground Station.

It is the first cyclehub that SBD has registered under its increasingly popular National Building Approval scheme, which streamlines and simplifies the process for developers to enable buildings to achieve Police Preferred Specification standards of security.

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve become members of Secured by Design (SBD) who have recognised that our Defender Xtreme security door provides an effective measure in preventing and reducing crime.

The SBD scheme is acknowledged by the UK Police, Home Office and a number of local authorities, and is part of a long established national project which focusses on the design and security of new and refurbished homes, commercial premises and car parks.

A film showing how Secured by Design (SBD), the national crime prevention initiative, is working with Police Forces and other organisations around the country to reduce crime, was shown as part of the Police Federation of England and Wales' annual conference this week.

The four-minute film was included in a specially-made series of programmes collectively called Above and Beyond produced by the Police Federation of England & Wales in partnership with ITN Productions, ITN's bespoke production hub, and is introduced by national newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky.

For the past 4 years, the inventor and manufacturer of the outstandingly successful Fog Bandit 240DB has been developing a new, more compact and immensely more versatile product designed for smaller environments, both commercial and domestic, yet not compromising on the performance and reliability of the proven Fog Bandit 240. The new Fog Bandit 320 has now been launched and has many new unique and ground breaking design and technical features covered by numerous international Patents.

A study led by an Engineering Doctorate student at the University of Surrey has found that the carbon footprint of crime over the last 20 years has fallen.

The study, published in the British Journal of Criminology, applied estimates of the carbon footprint of criminal offences to police-recorded crime and self-reported victimisation survey data, to estimate the carbon footprint of crime in England and Wales between 1995 and 2015.

Burglars failed to smash their way into three houses protected by robust security standards set by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative, police staff in Hertfordshire reported this week.

SBD, a crime prevention initiative operated by the Police Service across the UK, seeks to reduce crime by combining minimum standards of physical security like doors, windows and locks that achieve SBD's Police Preferred Specification standard and proven design principles of the built environment such as natural surveillance and defensible space.

Cyclehoop, a London-based, innovative producer of cycle security, has been accredited by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

The company was started by Anthony Lau after his cycle was stolen when thieves by-passed his lock by lifting his cycle over the top of a street sign where it had been secured.

An Israeli company which produces small, easy-to-use and reliable detection kits for the testing of drugs, has been awarded the sought-after Police Preferred Specification by Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.

Keynetics Ltd - a division of Sentrilock LLC, the leading electronic lockbox manufacturer and service provider in the USA - has specifically designed the Sentrikey system for the UK Health and Social Care sector.

A new study, which estimates the carbon footprint of burglary prevention measures, has found that the best options from both an environmental and security point of view are door and window locks. This is because they are not only more effective at preventing crime, but also more environmentally friendly, having a much lower carbon footprint than other measures, such as burglar alarms or CCTV.

The study, which was led by University of Surrey Engineering Doctorate student Helen Skudder, also found that many burglary prevention measures installed individually or in combination, produce less carbon emissions than an incidence of burglary.