SBD News

The Police Crime Prevention Academy are running a free RIBA Approved CPD session on Secured by Design in November 2025.

Littoralis is the latest company to join Secured by Design with their product, Disc, an online information-sharing platform designed to help communities combat low-level crime and anti-social behaviour.

Secured by Design (SBD) member company, Professional Surveillance Management (PSM) has helped stop a serious residential break-in at one of their client’s homes through their live CCTV monitoring service.

A six-home scheme in the London Borough of Hillingdon has been recognised with a Small Development Award at this year’s Secured by Design (SBD) ATLAS event.

One of South Harrow’s most notorious housing estates is undergoing a major regeneration. Phase one of the Grange Farm Estate redevelopment has already received a number of Secured by Design Gold Developers Awards for the project, and has also been commended for the Large Development Award at ATLAS25.

Sergeant Graham Kavanagh, Crime Prevention and Designing Out Crime Officer from An Garda Síochána, gives his views on the importance of prevention in modern, progressive, people-first policing in this feature, which appeared in the Garda Review magazine:

Kevin Hook of the Metropolitan Police Service has been presented with the ATLAS Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of over a decade of outstanding service and commitment as a Designing Out Crime Officer (DOCO).

The 30 year campaign from BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate, to reduce incidents of fuel theft and failures to pay, which cost forecourt operators more than £100 million a year, has taken a major step forward with BOSS becoming the first fuel debt recovery agency to be accredited by Police Crime Prevention Initiatives (Police CPI) to its scheme for Fuel Retailers and Cost Recovery Agencies.

Rosehip House in Islington, North London was commended in the Heathcare category award at ATLAS25, the Secured by Design Awards that recognises excellence in designing out crime.

Gate Safe recently delivered a webinar-based CPD on automated and manual gate safety to over 120 police Designing Out Crime Officers (DOCOs) and police crime prevention specialists, as part of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) Crime Prevention CPD programme.

Secured by Design (SBD), the official police crime prevention initiative, will be at the MLA Expo at the Telford International Centre from 17th to 19th October 2025. 

IP Door Entry, specialists in electronic access and smart entry solutions, has achieved the prestigious Secured by Design (SBD) Secure Connected Device accreditation for its IPGUARD range, giving housing associations, local authorities and developers a trusted, police-approved solution for secure property access.