Secured by design

Secured by Design is the UK Police flagship initiative supporting the principles of designing out crime.

County Shutters & Grilles Ltd has been awarded the Police’s Secured by Design status.

Secured by Design is the UK Police flagship initiative aimed at designing products for commercial and residential property which can help to reduce crime. County Shutters and Grilles Ltd, as a licensed company provides security products which pass standards and tests nominated by the police service as ‘Police Preferred Specification.

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.