Posted by
Emma White
The National Association of Business Crime Partnerships have announced the first ever National Awareness Week for Business Crime Reduction Partnerships to take place throughout the week of 17th March 2025.
Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRPs) are not for profit, subscription- based, local organisations with the purpose of preventing crime and antisocial behaviour, by uniting the local business community with local statutory services, including Police and local authority.
A BCRP can be independent or part of a Business Improvement District or local authority. Varied and diverse to address local needs, BCRPs typically employ a Crime Reduction Manager, provide communications via a two-way radio network and an intelligence sharing software app, sharing real time information to stop crime in it’s tracks, working together to prevent crime in the moment. Local Police Officers carry the BCRP radios, so can intervene sooner, in a preventative way. BCRP radios also link in to the local authority CCTV Control Rooms, providing the ability to track offenders and assist the police by streaming live CCTV to Police force control rooms.
Intelligence analysis enables BCRPs to spot repeat offenders across many different business premises and sectors, highlighting the most prolific and informing local business staff & Police about individuals who are likely to cause the most harm. BCRP banning orders can be issued, excluding individuals from all premises within the BCRP area – a banned from one, banned from all approach.
This partnership approach between the local business community and key local stakeholders enables the identification of offenders at a much earlier stage than would be possible without this collaboration and sharing of local knowledge, meaning offenders are no longer anonymous and can be quickly brought to justice.
With their excellent communications networks, BCRPs also implement a range of other projects to support wider community safety, such as Safe Spaces, Ask for Angela, Best Bar None, Days of Action, Police Operations, and other important collaborative projects to protect staff, customers and the wider community.
Sophie Jordan, CEO at the National Association of Business Crime Partnerships said “Most towns and cities in the UK are supported by a local BCRP, yet their highly effective work to keep communities safe is widely unknown outside the immediate industry sector.
“The Awareness Week seeks to change this by showcasing the complex and holistic approach to crime prevention provided by BCRP Methodology.”
Follow @National Association of Business Crime Partnerships Ltd and #BCRPUnitedAgainstCrime on Linked In for an overview of the complex and holistic work of BCRPs in all aspects of crime prevention through local community safety partnerships, safeguarding, preventing violence against women and girls, preventing youth offending, offender rehabilitation & addressing homelessness, preventing antisocial behaviour, violence in the night time economy, retail crime and violence & abuse against shop staff and more.
Pete Lambert, Chair of Guildford Business Crime Reduction Partnership said:_ "We are looking forward to promoting BCRP awareness week with our partners, and raising the awareness to other members of the business community._
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