Request for Volunteers and Examples of Best Practice
The Tackling Retail Crime Together strategy is a three-year plan that recognises retail crime as a complex, shared challenge with no single solution. Addressing it effectively requires a collective partnership approach. If you haven’t yet read the strategy, follow the link below to find out more:
Tackling Retail Crime Together Strategy
Work across the five key themes is already progressing at pace. However, there is a need to broaden participation within these areas and capture as much of the valuable work as possible currently being carried out by retailers, BIDs, BCRPs, security teams, and the police to tackle retail crime and strengthen our retail communities.
There are three strands currently seeking a wide range of volunteers who are willing to support efforts to capture, develop, and assess ongoing activity. If you have the time, are interested in getting involved, and would like to contribute to one of the following strands, please email a member of the National Business Crime Centre and they will connect you with the relevant strand lead:
- High Harm Places
- Offender Management
- What Works
The second request focuses on gathering information about work already underway within these three strands. If your organisation has developed or implemented a scheme that has proven effective, we would like to hear from you. The aim is to build a ‘best practice’ repository that is accessible to others, enabling them to explore and implement successful ideas and initiatives.
There is a wide range of potential contributions, and we encourage you to share anything you feel is relevant. Areas of interest may include: security marking, guarding policies, facial recognition, CCTV and BWV, store layout, street wardens, Criminal Behaviour Orders, out-of-court resolutions, alcohol and drug rehabilitation programmes, offender tagging, physical store enhancements, offender identification schemes, crime reporting platforms, partnership working, police initiatives, urban design, radio schemes, and information sharing.
Regardless of the initiative, if you believe it could benefit others, please submit it. If you would like to contribute, we ask that you use the below template. If the initiative has already been submitted for an award, you are welcome to share that submission to save time.
