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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launched and PAS 24:2012 was withdrawn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
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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.
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