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Standards - Security Screens
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 01-13-2018

The British Security Industry Association (BSIA), Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) and Secured by Design (SBD) have compiled this leaflet as an aid to help you determine whether a product has the appropriate level of security for its application and risk factor.

This leaflet is an aid to help you determine whether a product has the appropriate level of security for its application and risk factor. It is a clear comparison between established security standards appropriate for the physical protection of computers against burglary.

This document was specifically prepared by the SBD Test House Studies Group, the membership of which comprises of all of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) recognised test houses for security testing for doors and windows, to address apparent difficulties associated with the common interpretation of BS EN 1627, BS EN 1628, BS EN 1629 & BS EN 1630.

The report documents the failure to assess the carbon footprint of crime and responses to crime, both nationally and globally and speculates on reasons for this omission.

This case study shows that security standards improve public perception of local crime risk and residents’ physical and emotional wellbeing and that SBD can drive down crime rates, not only in new builds, but in retrofits too.

The Resilient Design Tool (RDT) will help key decision makers consider the proportionate use of counter terrorism (CT) design features in new and existing developments planned for crowded public places (i.e. anywhere in, or adjacent to, locations to which large numbers of the general public have access).

Independent research carried out by Huddersfield University compared 16 Secured by Design awarded new-build estates against similar but non-awarded estates in West Yorkshire during August 2007 and July 2008.

Crime is not simply an infraction of criminal law, but is also a social issue that affects everybody and imposes high costs to society. These costs can be divided between the tangible (those more amenable to measurement, such as the cost of policing), and the intangible, which are more difficult to quantify, such as the emotional cost to victims (Dolan et al. 2005).

This guide gives lots of helpful advice about the kinds of things that developers and their agents need to think about when tackling the issue of planning for crime prevention.

Lighting Against Crime
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 01-04-2018

This guide will provide the reader with a basic understanding of some of the terminology used when discussing external lighting systems and the recommended levels of illumination used to combat crime, the fear of crime and antisocial behaviour.