Foreword
Committees responsible
Guide
Section one. General guidance
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Scope
1.2 Definitions
1.3 Opportunities for burglary and crime
1.4 Strategy
1.5 Constraints related to fire
1.6 Design of dwellings
1.7 Design and layout of estates
1.8 Improving the security of existing estates
1.9 Housing management
Section two. Securing windows and rooflights
2.1 General
2.2 Security risks
2.3 Converting opening windows to fixed windows
2.4 Guidance on window design
2.5 Guidance on securing opening windows and rooflights
2.6 Ventilation
2.7 Rooflights
2.8 Bars, grilles and security shutters
Section three. Securing external doors
3.1 General
3.2 Door security problems
3.3 Guidance on construction and installation
3.4 Security locks and other security hardware
3.5 Recommended methods of securing external doors
3.6 Improving the security of existing doors
Section four. Glass, plastics glazing sheet and glazing
4.1 The security problem
4.2 Glass
4.3 Plastics glazing sheet material
4.4 Glazing
4.5 Windows as a means of escape
Section five. Intruder alarm systems
5.1 Installation and siting
5.2 Guidance on the installation and maintenance of
intruder alarm systems
5.3 Intruder alarm and fire alarm signals
Appendix
A. Guidance for owners and occupiers
Table
1. Securing existing doors
Figures
1. Typical hinged and pivoted windows (various framing
materials)
2. Typical independent locks that provide additional
security by supplementing the existing lockable or
non-lockable hardware for hinged or pivoted windows
3. Typical devices used to secure non-lockable
fastenings, for hinged and pivoted windows
4. Typical key-operated fastenings supplied with
windows or, where practical, fixed as replacements
for the original hardware
5. Locking cam catch (Fitch catch) with cylinder lock
6. Typical independent fastenings and locks for wood
framed vertical sliding sash windows
7. Typical lock for horizontally sliding aluminium
alloy sash windows
8. Typical louvre window
9. Typical window bars and grilles
10. Typical weak external door
11. Typical mortice deadlock
12. Typical mortice sashlock
13. Typical vulnerable rim night latch
14. Typical rim automatic deadlock
15. Typical mortice lockset for fire check entrance
doors to individual flats
16. Typical automatic mortice locking latch for
communal exit doors to blocks of flats
17. Typical door bolts
18. Typical security padbars and concealed shackle
padlocks
19. Typical close shackle padlock and strong padbar
20. Typical and vulnerable hasp and staple, open shackle
padlock and padbar
21. First line of defence: see the caller without
opening the door
22. Second line of defence against callers at the door:
limited security when the door is partly open
23. Typical fasteners for 'second fit' securing of door
frames to surrounding structure without the risk
of spalling
24. Typical secured wood front entrance door of a
separate dwelling
25. Typical secured wood front entrance door of an
individual flat in a block of flats
26. Typical secured side or rear entrance doors not
used as final exit doors
27. Typical secured outward opening doors
28. Typical double leaf hinged wood doors
29. Plan view of meeting stiles of typical double
leaf hinged steel doors, showing one of the two
flush bolts concealed within the channel of the
first closing leaf
30. Typical outward opening double leaf steel doors
fitted with a locking espagnolette (key action
not shown)
31. Typical sliding patio doors: conventional primary
and secondary methods of locking
32. Alternative method of secondary locking of patio
doors
33. Securing a typical up and over garage door with
mortice locks or padlocks
34. Typical double leaf hinged wood doors secured with
a locking espagnolette
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