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How Guildford’s BID has driven down low-level business crime – and can prove it
As Guildford’s Business Improvement District – ‘Experience Guildford’ – approaches the end of its second five-year term, Pete Lambert, the Town Safety & Venue Liaison Manager, is confident of re-election, thanks among other things, to the strength of its Business Crime Reduction Partnership. “We’ve had the BCRP for information-sharing for the best part of 10
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How Disc supports a sensitive approach in Liverpool
For the Liverpool BID Company and the levy payers it works for, driving down low-level crime and anti-social behaviour across the city centre is a key priority. But in this traditionally generous city, the BID adopts a sensitive approach to the problems of rough sleeping, street drinking and begging… The Liverpool BID Company manages two
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Driving down low-level crime and ASB in Gloucester and beyond
Set up in 2014, Gloucester City Safe is one of the UK’s most successful – and certainly the most studied – business crime reduction schemes in the UK. And at the heart of its success is Disc. From scratch, Gloucester City Safe has grown both geographically (it now covers the neighbouring town of Stroud) and
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Reducing crime in Sheffield by protecting ‘vulnerable’ Offenders
Around the country, Business Crime Reduction Partnerships help to reduce low-level business crime and anti-social behaviour. Now, some are working to identify ‘vulnerable’ Offenders as early as possible to reduce future crime… Sheffield City Council’s Business Crime Team is based in its city-centre CCTV control room. From there it runs the Sheffield Business Crime Partnership,
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Ox tales: supporting safer stadia
Football clubs across the country have supporters who are subject to either a banning order, imposed by a court or the club, or a behavioural contract. The management of these bans or contracts constitutes a club’s Banning Scheme, the purpose of which is to encourage the good behaviour of fans. This in-depth case study follows a year-long deployment
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Disc delivers safer football grounds and reduces costs
Today sees the launch of the Disc crime reduction system for football clubs. The secure, online information-sharing system improves football clubs’ existing Banning Schemes and makes it quick and easy for clubs that don’t already have effective schemes to set them up. Additionally, Disc introduces functions and procedures which deliver proven cost reductions, improve operational efficiencies, and
