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RAC Glasgow Conference 2024 – Highlights and summary of the event

The 2024 annual Retailers Against Crime (RAC) Glasgow conference took place in September, marking another pivotal event in the ongoing fight against retail crime. This year's conference brought together a wide array of experts, law enforcement officers, and industry leaders to discuss the latest trends and solutions around retail crime, data sharing, anti-social behaviour, and cybercrime. It was a packed event with high-profile speakers and informative presentations, addressing the most...

SentrySIS Joins LANPAC as Sponsor of 2024 Business Conference

In a strategic move to strengthen its presence in the North West and to work even closer with long term partners such as Retailers Against Crime, SentrySIS, has marked its new associate membership with Lancashire-based crime partnership LANPAC by sponsoring the organisation's prestigious Business Conference 2024. LANPAC is a unique collaboration between Lancashire Police Constabulary, local businesses, and public services, united in their mission to reduce crime and disorder across the ...

CASE STUDY - The benefits of online crime reporting between Sainsburys and Durham Police

Public accountability meetings are one of the ways the Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen holds Durham Police Constabulary to account. Through these public meetings, Joy ensures the police continue to deliver efficient and effective services to local residents and businesses across the police force area. In this public meeting, Joy focus on retail crime as the safety of businesses and shop workers is a key high priority theme within Joy’s Police and Crime Plan 2021-2024....

Stockton BID gets tough on business crime with launch of crime fighting app for retailers

Retailers within the North East market town of Stockton-on-Tees will this year put their foot down to stamp out retail crime and anti-social behaviour with the launch of SentrySIS, a retail focused crime intelligence app. The Stockton Business Improvement District has partnered with the tech crime platform called SentrySIS to roll out the powerful new crime prevention system across the town centre for BID levy payers. The SentrySIS system, that launched earlier this month, will provide ...

The relationship between serious organised shoplifting, human trafficking and vulnerable women

Retailers across the UK face numerous threats from shoplifters and organised retail crime gangs looking to steal merchandise on a daily basis. However, tech-based solutions such as SentrySIS are giving retailers and crime reduction partnerships the tools they need to fight back. SentrySIS is an incident reporting and crime investigation platform that allows retailers and crime reduction partnerships to report, log, track, analyse and share information on criminal incidents and the serious or...