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Regular, compelling communication vital for successful schemes
Business crime reduction schemes want Disc to become a regular part of their Members’ work routines. Using Disc to share compelling content with them is a powerful way they can ensure Members keep coming back to Disc again and again… As a Disc Administrator, it’s vital that you regularly engage with your Members with a…
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Maximising membership engagement with your Disc system
Every three months we look at your Disc implementation to see how it’s performing and, where necessary, we contact you with tips on how to improve its performance. We look at two things: your ‘membership engagement’ level and your GDRP compliance and Best Practice documentation. In this article we’ll look at the first of these;…
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Harnessing the power of county-wide Disc Networks to drive down crime
In over 500 town- and city-centre crime reduction schemes across the country Disc enables tens of thousands of local businesses to share information about low-level crime, ASB and prolific offenders. But Disc systems can network together to share information across a county or metropolitan area mapped onto police force areas. Already county-wide Disc Networks represent…
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Self-managing anti-social behaviour to make a difference
For almost a year now, high street businesses have faced unprecedented challenges. Covid has closed tens of thousands of retail premises resulting in a temporary decline in shoplifting, while the virtual closure of the night-time economy has reduced the level of associated anti-social behaviour (ASB). Yet overall, data show that lockdowns, job losses, business closures…
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Self-managing low-level business crime – with the police.
Reduced budgets – and now the added challenge of Covid-19 – have forced police to concentrate their scarce resources where they can be most effective. For retailers and licensees across the UK this has meant less police engagement in low level business crime such as shoplifting and anti-social behaviour around the night-time economy. While police…
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Crime Reduction Schemes – filling the policing gap
Napoleon once famously described Britain as a ‘Nation of Shopkeepers’. Our retail industry is currently facing unprecedented pressures, especially on the High Street. This is irrespective of being a large retail brand or a small independent – the challenges are very real. The British Retail Consortium 2020 Retail crime survey estimates that over £1bn has been…
