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Gold
Standard
Security
Secured by Design (SBD),
the national police crime
prevention initiative,
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.
» » SBD MEMBERS’ PRODUCTS RANGE
from secure and robust doors, windows
and locks through to cutting-edge IT
products, CCTV components, and shutters
and barriers. SBD is the only way for
companies to obtain police accreditation
for security products in the UK.
Independent academic research shows
that SBD ‘design out crime’ developments
can reduce crimes like burglary by up to
75% in new build homes and up to 63% in
refurbishments. Evidence suggests these
figures are sustainable year-on-year and
represent a significant reduction especially
as most SBD developments are in social
housing in deprived areas.
There are three levels of SBD award:
Gold, Silver and Bronze. The Gold Award
is the highest level and it is awarded
where the physical security specification
of the home or building is enhanced
by the security provided in the external
environment.
Here are four case
studies that have
achieved the highest
award of gold in 2018…
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ROTHERHAM URGENT &
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» » ROTHERHAM’S NEW URGENT AND
Emergency Care Centre was presented
with a SBD Gold Award by local
Designing Out Crime Officer John Shillito
and Chief Inspector Paul Ferguson, the
South Yorkshire Police Force Lead for
Crime Prevention.
Construction of the £12.2 million Urgent
and Emergency Care Centre began
in March 2015 and culminated with its
recent opening by the Duke of Kent.
The Centre is open for 24 hours a day,
365 days a year, and has brought A&E
facilities together with those of the former
walk-in centre in Greasborough Road.
An SBD trained Designing Out Crime
Officer worked with the architects,
Gilling Dod, and The Rotherham NHS
Foundation Trust from the planning
stages through to construction to
incorporate SBD crime prevention
techniques and security into the
development. Site visits were conducted
throughout the construction and close
liaison was maintained with on-site staff.
These measures included a safe
and security-focused layout for the
building and its immediate environment
that enable natural surveillance; fixed
furniture; state of the art digital CCTV
and appropriate access control systems.
The measures, which also include doors,
windows and locks which meet the
enhanced Police Preferred Specification
Standards, combine to make the
properties more robust and less attractive
to opportunist criminals.
John Cartwright, Director of Estates
and Facilities at The Rotherham NHS
Foundation Trust, said: “The safety
and security of our staff, patients and
visitors has been paramount from the
initial conception of this project to its
conclusion. As a result, we are confident
that not only have we created a state-
of-the-art medical facility for the people
of Rotherham, but have also delivered a
facility that will protect all who attend.”
Camden Town Courtyard
» » WITH ARCHITECTURE THAT
remains sensitive to local Victorian and
Georgian properties, the £40 million,
164-home residential development in
Central London has been developed on
a previously vacant brownfield site and
provides a mix of 50% private and 50%
affordable housing, including wheelchair
accessible homes.
Most importantly, a SBD-trained
Designing Out Crime Officer worked with
the architects, Sheppard Robson, and
Barratt London from the planning stages
through to construction to incorporate
SBD crime prevention techniques and
security into the development.
These measures included the layout
of the building and its immediate
environment with natural surveillance
from the properties over public spaces
and access routes; appropriate access
control systems, a concierge service
and a large, secure cycle storage space.
The measures, which also include doors,
windows and locks which meet the
enhanced Police Preferred Specification
Standards, combine to make the
properties more robust and less attractive
to opportunist criminals.
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