The Business Improvement District which promotes businesses in Fulham Broadway under the Discover Fulham brand, have this month rejuvenated their crime reduction strategy by adopting SentrySIS for all its levy payers and partners. The strategic move supports their aim to help reduce retail crime across the day and night-time economy in the area. Fulham is one of the most connected residential areas in the capital with leafy green spaces, bars and restaurants – all within a very short commu...

Swansea - Wales’ second largest city has this week switched from its previous crime intelligence platform provider to SentrySIS, in a bid to better protect local businesses, residents and visitors to city centre. Working closely and in partnership with South Wales Police, Swansea BID, Swansea City Council and other local stakeholders, Swansea Against Business Crime (SABC) made the strategic decision to help meet its business aims and objectives by using a more enhanced platform. ...

In this episode of Crime Partnerships Under the Spotlight, we speak to Superintendent Patrick Holdaway, Head of the National Business Crime Centre. The NBCC is an organisation which helps all businesses and police forces learn, share and support each other, with the aim of preventing and combatting business crime and criminality. They bridge the gap between Policing and Business across all business sectors. Their main aim is to reduce business crime and this is achieved through...

The SentrySIS development team have this month released its ‘Member Risk report’ within the ever expanding suite of intelligence focused tools available to system administrators who manage crime partnerships. The eagerly anticipated report helps crime partnership administrators understand which of their members are most at risk from would-be retail offenders across any given day of the week. The Member Risk report uses a custom built algorithm that examines all the known crime da...

Over the Easter weekend, the second Safer Business National action day of the Operation Shopkind initiative was held in Stratford, London. The weekend’s ‘days of action’ were hosted by the Safer Stratford business crime reduction partnership and local partners from across retail, local policing and private security organisations and Stratford Original BID. The national action days urge the general members of the public to be aware of the essential role shop workers pla...