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Secured by Design withdraws
acceptance of PAS24:2012
Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime
prevention initiative has been a staunch campaigner
for improved security in buildings for nearly 30 years.
» » ESTABLISHED BY THE POLICE
Service in 1989, SBD set about reversing
the huge peak in burglary, which had
resulted following the housing boom of the
1960s-1980s when there was a huge and
urgent demand for housing. Estates were
built quickly and often cheaply with little
consideration given to security. For example,
double-glazing that had been installed could
be lifted out of window frames to provide easy
and silent entry. Also, estate design with sky
walkways and subways to keep pedestrians and
vehicles apart, created an environment where
escape routes were everywhere and anonymity
was absolute. Not surprisingly, burglary
boomed.
SBD created a Police Preferred
Specification to drive security standards in the
building and construction industry. Products,
such as doors, windows and locks were
required to be attack resistant to gain SBD’s
valued accreditation.
SBD works closely with UK Police Forces
and a wide range of other organisations to
achieve sustainable reductions in crime. SBD
has achieved some significant successes. In
its work with National Government, it has
influenced national planning policy to embed
crime prevention in the planning process and
has established police security standards in the
building and construction industry. This has
led to more than one million homes built to
SBD crime prevention standards across the
UK – that’s 30% of all new homes built –
with reductions in crime of up to 87% each
year and every year of a development’s life, as
reported by Police Scotland in 2017.
WITHDRAWAL OF
ACCEPTANCE OF PAS24:2012
FROM 1ST OCTOBER 2018
In March 2016 PAS 24:2016 was launched
and PAS 24:2012 was withdrawn by the BSI.
For the last two and a half years, both
PAS24:2012 and PAS 24:2016 have been
accepted by SBD, to allow time for the door
and window industry to achieve the new
standard and to allow time for test bodies to
gain their own UKAS accreditation to the new
standard so that they could then begin the task
of product testing to the new requirements.
The last UKAS facility to gain accreditation
for assessment of the new standard completed
the process in October 2017.
SBD could not continue to run the old and
new standards simultaneously and indefinitely
and therefore, on the 1st October 2018,
SBD withdrew PAS 24:2012 as an acceptable
security standard and will withdraw it from
all future guidance. As a consequence, from
this date it will no longer be an acceptable
standard for use within SBD developments.
One of the new requirements of
PAS24:2016 is that if a letter-plate is to be
used, it must be a DHF TS008 accredited
product. There are now several companies
that produce a letter-plate of this type and
six are listed on the SBD website. Naturally,
in circumstances where such a letter-plate is
installed within a fire rated door set, a TS008
letter-plate that is similarly accredited to fire
will also need to be part of the approved door
furniture.
The approach of withdrawing PAS24:2012
over two years after the introduction of
PAS24:2016 echoes how SBD dealt with
PAS24:2007 when PAS24:2012 was launched,
and as such, a time period was provided that
enabled the industries of testing, certification
and manufacturing to meet the new
standard.
SBD took this action is in the interests
of crime prevention as the continued use of
an inferior standard harmed that objective,
leaving property and people vulnerable.
For more information on technical standards
visit www.securedbydesign.com where you
will find industry advice and guides.
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