OSPA Nominee: Outstanding Security Partnership

We are delighted to have been named finalists in the Outstanding Security Partnership category at this year’s OSPAs for not one, but TWO successful crime reduction campaigns.

The first is for our partnership work with Police Scotland and Govanhill Housing Association. Police Scotland launched Operation Kapel using SelectaDNA property marking kits to deter housebreakings (residential burglary) in February 2020 and targeted around 300 homes.

The community has speakers of many different languages, so police asked Govanhill Housing Association for help with translators to produce videos to explain what SelectaDNA does. Since Operation Kapel began, no property that was marked has been broken into, resulting in a 100% reduction rate. The partnership was extended to a further 300 homes.

We are also finalists for our successful partnership work with Avon & Somerset Police who have used our BikeRegister bike marking kits to mark and register bikes at hundreds of organised events, resulting in a significant reduction in bike theft across the whole county.