Demonstrating their ongoing commitment to preventing fuel theft, Fuel Theft Solutions Ltd have become members of the official police security initiative – Secured by Design (SBD).

Chris Day, Managing Director of Fuel Theft Solutions commented: “We are proud to have achieved the required standard for Secured by Design, this further underpins our commitment in providing the latest crime intelligence to the transport sector in reducing the risk of freight crime and disrupting criminality”.

Owned by the UK Police Service, SBD works to reduce crime and create safer communities. With their product-based accreditation scheme (the Police Preferred Specification PPS), they provide a recognised standard for all security products that deter and reduce crime.

SBD is the only way for companies to obtain police recognition for security products in the UK and work with a range of manufacturers and standards authorities to ensure that security standards are up to date with emerging criminal trends.

Fuel Theft Solutions are the leading supplier of fuel theft prevention products, offering bespoke solutions to preventing fuel theft within both the public and private sectors. They also operate within the UK from their headquarters in Staffordshire to ensure stringent quality control.

With Freight and fuel crime rates increasing on a yearly basis, with over 4805 reported crimes in 2022, with direct industry costs of over 63.6 million pounds, protecting both drivers’ and customers’ goods has never been more important