In a digital world where organisations place their trust in third parties to store, manage and process their data, questions are unsurprisingly asked about ‘what happens to my data?’ when they want to move to another supplier. The subject of data migration can naturally be a very daunting and overwhelming thought for any organisation, especially for business crime reduction partnerships (BCRP) as data provides crime managers with intelligence to share with their members. It&rsquo...

In this episode we speak to Maxine Fraser, Managing Director of Retailers Against Crime (RAC). From Left to Right : Maxine Fraser (Managing Director of RAC) & Stephanie Karte (Area Manager - Scotland). RAC has been operating for over 20 years serving businesses, retail parks, shopping centres and public service organisations across the UK with crime partnership support and advice. Based in Scotland, Northern Ireland and England, the RAC team are specialists in crime data analysis ...

In this episode of Crime Partnerships Under the Spotlight, we speak to Sean Walker, the Crime Manager for Business Against Crime in Leeds (BACIL). BACIL is one of the UK's longest running and award winning crime partnerships in the UK, serving businesses across the metropolitan district of Leeds, West Yorkshire with crime prevention support and advice. Sean explains why he thinks partnership working is the key to success and shares some of his thoughts around how the sector can improve. ...

One of the UK’s longest and most well-established crime partnerships, this week added value to its current crime reduction operation by signing a two-year agreement to use ConnectLive by SentrySIS. Local businesses and other stakeholders within the Brighton & Hove Business Crime Reduction Partnership can now securely share crime related information via a ‘Whatsapp’ style messaging application as part of the wider BusinessProtect suite of tools within SentrySIS. C...

To kick start 2022, SentrySIS have this week launching its new ‘podcast-style’ initiative where leading figures within the business crime reduction partnership landscape are interviewed to gather their thoughts on a variety of subjects. Entitled, ‘Crime Partnerships – Under the Spotlight’, the video-based interviews will not only discuss industry topics, talking points and local issues affecting crime partnerships and their members, but seeks to find out th...