National BCRP Awareness Week

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The National Association of Business Crime Partnerships have announced the

first ever National Awareness Week for Business Crime Reduction Partnerships

to take place throughout the week of 17th March 2025.

Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRPs) are not for profit, subscription-

based, local organisations with the purpose of preventing crime and antisocial

behaviour, by uniting the local business community with local statutory

services, including Police and local authority. A BCRP can be independent or

part of a Business Improvement District or local authority.

Varied and diverse to address local needs, BCRPs typically employ a Crime

Reduction Manager, provide communications via a two-way radio network and

an intelligence sharing software app, sharing real time information to stop crime

in it’s tracks, working together to prevent crime in the moment. Local Police

Officers carry the BCRP radios, so can intervene sooner, in a preventative way.

BCRP radios also link in to the local authority CCTV Control Rooms, providing the

ability to track offenders and assist the police by streaming live CCTV to Police

force control rooms.

Intelligence analysis enables BCRPs to spot repeat offenders across many

different business premises and sectors, highlighting the most prolific and

informing local business staff & Police about individuals who are likely to cause

the most harm. BCRP banning orders can be issued, excluding individuals from

all premises within the BCRP area – a banned from one, banned from all

approach.

This partnership approach between the local business community and key local

stakeholders enables the identification of offenders at a much earlier stage than

would be possible without this collaboration and sharing of local knowledge,

meaning offenders are no longer anonymous and can be quickly brought to

justice.

With their excellent communications networks, BCRPs also implement a range

of other projects to support wider community safety, such as Safe Spaces, Ask

for Angela, Best Bar None, Days of Action, Police Operations, and other

important collaborative projects to protect staff, customers and the wider

community.

Sophie Jordan, CEO at the National Association of Business Crime Partnerships

said “Most towns and cities in the UK are supported by a local BCRP, yet their

highly effective work to keep communities safe is widely unknown outside the

immediate industry sector.

“The Awareness Week seeks to change this by showcasing the complex and

holistic approach to crime prevention provided by BCRP Methodology.”

Follow @National Association of Business Crime Partnerships Ltd and

#BCRPUnitedAgainstCrime on Linked In for an overview of the complex and

holistic work of BCRPs in all aspects of crime prevention through local

community safety partnerships, safeguarding, preventing violence against

women and girls, preventing youth offending, offender rehabilitation &

addressing homelessness, preventing antisocial behaviour, violence in the night

time economy, retail crime and violence & abuse against shop staff and more.

For more information please contact info@nabcp.co.uk