Integrated perimeter, security and event overlay
fencing specialist Zaun Limited is the latest company to renew its membership
with Secured by Design (SBD), the national police crime prevention initiative.
Zaun is a private British company, founded in 1996,
and with regional offices in France and Dubai. Zaun offers a complete
service from initial site survey through to manufacture in the UK and
distribution globally to a host of countries. Both their standard and bespoke
systems are high quality and are used by corporate, residential and local
authority sectors.
The UK's largest water and waste company has recently
awarded two multi-million-pound perimeter protection contracts to Zaun. The
first contract is for the design of perimeter protection for seven sites and
the second contract is to supply and install around 11km of perimeter
protection for four of the seven sites.
Zaun will supply its SBD accredited ArmaWeave woven
mesh fencing system around the perimeters and various compounds and buildings.
ArmaWeave – which is unique to Zaun – is one of Zaun’s most intruder-resistant
products and is produced on the world’s largest mesh weaving machine at the
company’s West Midlands manufacturing base.
Zaun sales and marketing director Chris Plimley said:
"“We are delighted to renew our membership at SBD. They bring a host of
expertise and innovation in encouraging manufacturers like us to build high
security into our systems by design and we look forward to working with them
and their network and community on pushing the need for security to be
considered right at the outset of design projects.”
SBD Development Officer Hazel Goss said: "I am
pleased that we have renewed contracts with Zaun, who have been SBD members
since 2013, and who manufacture amazing perimeter security products. It is a
pleasure being their Development Officer and I look forward to working with
them going forward”.
SBD is part of Police Crime Prevention
Initiatives (PCPI), a police owned organisation that works on behalf of the
Police Service to deliver a wide range of crime prevention and demand reduction
initiatives across the UK.
PCPI is a not-for-profit organisation and Board Members include senior police
officers from each of the four Home Nations who control and direct the work
PCPI carries out on behalf of the Police Service.
SBD plays a significant crime prevention role in the
planning process to design out crime in a wide range of building sectors. It
has achieved some significant success including one million homes built to SBD
standards with reductions in crime of up to 87%.
SBD has many partner organisations, ranging from the
Home Office, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and the
Police Service through to local authorities, housing associations, developers
and manufacturers and work closely with standards and certification bodies to
ensure that their publicly available standards actually meet the needs of the
police and public alike.
Products must be subject to rigorous testing and
additionally be fully certificated by an independent, third-party certification
body accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) before being
allowed to carry the SBD logo - this is the only way for companies to obtain
police accreditation for security-related products in the UK.
