What Works

The plan will focus on developing strong evidence on What Works in preventing retail crime, ensuring that proven strategies can be shared across both industry and policing.

By building this knowledge base, it will support the implementation of effective interventions that target prolific offenders and focus resources on high-harm locations where crime has the greatest impact.

This evidence-led approach will not only help reduce losses and improve safety for retailers and their staff, but also strengthen partnerships between businesses and law enforcement, creating a more coordinated and resilient response to retail crime.

Measures

We will develop Evidence Based Practices relating to the prevention of crime focussed on the principles of ‘Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design’.

We will test interventions, and track their effectiveness using a robust evaluation process.

We will publicise all findings.

Establish What Works Well in Preventing Crime

Targeting places and people, testing new and existing evidenced based tactics and tracking outputs and outcomes will allow the development of ‘what works’.