Students in Kent heard about the preventative side of policing, as Secured by Design (SbD) development officer Lyn Poole visited Canterbury Christ Church University. She spoke with students (pictured) taking a policing course about the work by SbD on behalf of UK police.
The students also heard from Linda Mason, one of Kent Police’s SbD-trained Designing Out Crime Officers (DOCOs), who spoke about her front line work, with architects, developers and council planners to design out crime, before building begins.
SBD is a police-owned body that works on behalf of UK police, to deliver a range of crime prevention and demand reduction initiatives. SbD plays a crime prevention part in the planning process to design out crime in a range of building sectors. It has seen one million homes built to SbD standards with reductions in crime of up to 87pc.
SbD partner organisations range from the Home Office, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the police to local authorities, housing associations, developers and manufacturers. SbD works with standards and certification bodies to ensure that their publicly available standards actually meet the needs of the police and public.
Products must be subjected to testing and auditing by an accredited third party organisation before being allowed to carry the SbD logo; as the only way for companies to obtain police accreditation for security related products in the UK.
