Secure By Design

Secured by Design is the UK Police flagship initiative supporting the principles of designing out crime. It has a number of key features:

• Secured by Design (SBD) is the corporate title for a family of national police projects involving the design for new homes, refurbished homes, commercial premises, car parks and other police crime prevention projects.
• It is primarily an initiative to encourage the building industry to adopt crime prevention measures to assist in reducing the opportunity for crime and the fear of crime, creating a safer and more secure environment. Secured by Design supports one of the Government's key planning objectives - the creation of secure, quality places where people wish to live and work.
• Secured by Design is supported and managed by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and has the backing of the Home Office. It has been drawn up in consultation with the Department for Transport, Local Government & Regions (formerly DETR) as well as trade, industry and standards organisations.
• Research by Huddersfield University shows that residents living on Secured by Design developments are half as likely to be burgled, two and a half times less likely to suffer vehicle crime and suffer 25% less criminal damage.

• The Developers Award is a certificate given to building developments which, following consultation with local police Architectural Liaison Officers (sometimes called Crime Prevention Design Advisors), are built to conform to the ACPO guidelines and so reduce the opportunity for crime.
• Licensed Products - Secured by Design licensed company status is awarded to those companies producing security products, including doors and windows, which pass standards and tests nominated by the police service as "Police Preferred Specification".

Secured by Design does not guarantee that a particular area will be crime-proof but indicates that the site has been subject to a design process and improved level of security which, in the experience of the police service and other agencies, have been shown to reduce significantly the risks of crime and the fear of crime.

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