public and private sector partnership working – the way forward richard barron chief executive the...
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Public and private sector partnership working – the way
forward
Richard BarronChief Executive
The Association of Business Crime Partnerships
What is business crime?
• Proposed definition of business crime:
Business crime is any criminal offence that is committed against a person or property that is motivated by the connection of that person or property to a business.
• Who does business crime affect?• Issues of perception of a town as being safe• Crime levels
Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2010
‘Practically and economically, the retail
sector lies at the heart of successful
and prosperous communities’.
Business Crime Reduction Partnerships
• Set up to reduce acquisitive and violent crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour against businesses, their premises, staff and customers
• ABCP has129 BCRPs• 8 Regions• Work to a national standard of accreditation:
the Safer Business Award
Partnership structure
• Board of Management• Steering Group• Paid full/part time manager plus support• Secure accommodation• Radio link including police, local businesses and CCTV• Exclusion Notice Scheme• Offender target files for members• Incident reporting• Access to police and other photographs• Safer Business Award accredited
Safer Business Award
• Provides a legal framework for sharing sensitive
personal data under the DPA• Enhances professionalism• Encourages strong and effective local partnerships• Motivates businesses with a stake in the commercial
success of town, city or shopping centres• Reassures customers and staff• Recognises and rewards success
Members submit intelligence reports
Crime Trends and
Target Offenders Identified
-Intelligence Shared-Targets Excluded-Police Photos passed to Partners
Raised target profile via police intelligence
system
Relevant information passed tolocal partnerships
Liaison with drugs/youth/alcohol/asbo
teams
Evidence produced for police
and CJS. Liaison with CPS and courts
Results relayed back to partners
Newsletters
Partnership Intelligence Model
Partnership links
Prolific offenders
Wanted on Warrant
Probation/Drugs/Alcohol/Youth/ ASBO
Teams
PNC Markers
•CCTV / Radio links
• Information and photo sharing
• Exclusion notice scheme
Town Centre Management
Licensed premises
Bus and railway stations Taxis
Car parks Forecourts
Hotels
Truancy Street sellers Begging
Street drinking Drug users
Police
Local Authority
CJS
BCRPs – crime and community focus
• Examples of BCRPs responding to local crime and community needs and delivering added value– Hemel Hempstead BCRP – safer neighbourhoods– Reading BCRP – protecting vulnerable people– Exeter BCRP – city evacuation plan– Brighton BCRP – first time young offenders– Somerset West BCRP – rural crime– Southampton BCRP - school children– Maidstone BCRP – Community bus– Tunbridge Wells BCRP – prevent &
deter strategy
The need to change...
• 22% reduction in number of high street shops by 2018• Significant job losses• Online retail sales to increase from 12.7% to 21.5% by 2018• 164 major/medium sized companies going into administration• High Street consumer spending likely to reduce from 50%
(2000) to 40% in 2014• 153 UK town centres will need to shrink
to survive• Need to develop the problem towns• This will present a range of social, economic
and community safety challenges
3 questions
1. How can two way involvement and investment between
public and private sector partnership working be mutually beneficial?
2. What are the barriers to effective partnership working?
3. How do we move forward from this forum to developing the relationship and
delivering mutually beneficial
partnership working?
