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Warwickshire Retail Crime Initiative |
The Warwickshire Retail Crime Initiative Limited (WRCI) is a County wide Partnership approach to prevent and reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in retail and licensed business premises in Warwickshire with members in Leamington Spa, Warwick, Kenilworth, Stratford, Rugby, Atherstone, Nuneaton and Bedworth and villages in Warwickshire.
Our team is working to bring businesses together to work in partnership with the Police, the Police and Crime Commissioner, Warwickshire County Council, District Councils, CCTV, BIDS, the National Association of Business Crime Partnerships and other national and local organisations to tackle crime and disorder in our business communities. This ranges from shoplifting to violence in licensed premises.
Our team is working to bring businesses together to work in partnership with the Police, the Police and Crime Commissioner, Warwickshire County Council, District Councils, CCTV, BIDS, the National Association of Business Crime Partnerships and other national and local organisations to tackle crime and disorder in our business communities. This ranges from shoplifting to violence in licensed premises.
We welcome new members. Read more about the scheme here. Contact us for further information or complete an application form
Benefits of membership:
Benefits of membership:
- Use of the DISC App to submit reports and view offender images both known and unknown
- View individuals excluded from WRCI member premises
- WRCI stickers to identify a premises as a member
- Participation in the exclusion order scheme
- Services of the WRCI Administrators
- Over 500 members to share information with
- Access to offender profiles
- Receive alerts via the instant message facility on the DISC App
- A weekly newsletter containing links to the latest news, alerts, documents and upcoming events
- Improved partnership relationship with the Police, CCTV and local authorities
- Creating a safer environment for retail and licensing business, customers and the community
- Reduce offending in member premises
NEWS
Membership update (June 2022)
Congratulations to all for submitting reports which provide a great benefit to all the membership.
The below cover the last 12 months:
WRCI has 558 users on DISC, Shops – 193, licensed premises – 92. Some premises have multiple users. There is also a large number of Police. CCTV and local authority users. Currently 80% of users are logging in.
There has been some great inter action with 148 offenders identified via DISC.
In the last 12 months, members have submitted 1,315 incident reports, the largest numbers being, 587 thefts, 218 cases of being on a premises when banned, 203 attempted thefts, 127 cases of verbal abuse, 108 assaults and 79 cases of suspicious behaviour.
Congratulations to all for submitting reports which provide a great benefit to all the membership.
The below cover the last 12 months:
WRCI has 558 users on DISC, Shops – 193, licensed premises – 92. Some premises have multiple users. There is also a large number of Police. CCTV and local authority users. Currently 80% of users are logging in.
There has been some great inter action with 148 offenders identified via DISC.
In the last 12 months, members have submitted 1,315 incident reports, the largest numbers being, 587 thefts, 218 cases of being on a premises when banned, 203 attempted thefts, 127 cases of verbal abuse, 108 assaults and 79 cases of suspicious behaviour.
Association of Convenience Stores Crime Report 2022
Key findings from the report.
Key findings from the report.
- In the last year crime cost convenience stores £100million, and the total cost of crime and security is equivalent to a 9p crime tax on every transaction in local shops.
- Convenience retailers are investing over £246m in crime prevention activity, an average of £5,239 per store.
- The level of violence against store colleagues remains unacceptably high. We estimate there were over 35,000 incidents of violence in the last year and 89% of store colleagues have experienced verbal abuse.
- There were 970,000 incidents of shop theft in the last year which have cost retailers an average of £1066 per store.
- Retailers attribute 53% of shop thefts to repeat offenders, with the majority of these motivated by substance addiction
27 March 2022
Warwickshire Business Watch and Partner Agencies are hosting the FREE Business Crime Prevention and Awareness Clinics
Where: Eliot Park Innovation Centre, CV10 7RH
When: Wednesday 30th March
Book your slot here
Warwickshire Business Watch and Partner Agencies are hosting the FREE Business Crime Prevention and Awareness Clinics
Where: Eliot Park Innovation Centre, CV10 7RH
When: Wednesday 30th March
Book your slot here
6 February 2022: StreetSafe initiative added to Useful Resources
3 December 2021:WRCI has joined National Business Crime Solution They published a new item: Warwickshire Retail Crime Initiative (WRCI) are a great example of a county wide crime partnership working to reduce crime across multiple local areas. They work strategically with Warwickshire Police, local authorities and partners across the force area to identify and target local and traveling offenders and have this week joined the NBCS Connect network.
NBCS continually look to improve the quality of data and intelligence available to members to help target harden offenders and escalate investigations. Through the new collaborative partnership with WRCI, the intelligence gaps become smaller and offenders have less opportunity to commit crime.
The team at WRCI have already begun to engage with other members of the NBCS network through the monthly Trend Call and Data Sharing activities and have started to feel like part of the team!
August 2021:The Administrators are now visiting members and holding local scheme meetings. If you would like a vist or are are interested in joining the schem please use the contact form.
May 2021: Warwickshire Business Watch has launched the ShopKind campaign. It has three aims:
May 2021 : In response to the growth in violence and abuse against shopworkers, the BRC has worked in co-operation with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to create an animation that can be used by any retailer to train their staff on how to deal with such threats.
View here on YouTube
April 2021: ACS’ has now launched their Crime Report 2021 which is available here The report found that retail crime has a huge economic impact on local shops, costing £142 million, but also a direct impact on people working in shops from violence and verbal abuse.
The report estimates there were over 40,000 incidents of violence and threats in the sector in the last year. 89% of store colleagues experienced verbal abuse; there were over 1.2million incidents with retailers estimating that 21% of these were hate motivated.
The sector has seen over 1.1million incidents of theft in the last year. Retailers attribute 63% of shop thefts to repeat offenders, with the majority of these motivated by a drug or alcohol addiction. Encountering shop thieves is now followed by customers not following covid guidelines and enforcing age-restrictions as top trigger for violence; duties that shopworkers are required by law to enforce.
3 December 2021:WRCI has joined National Business Crime Solution They published a new item: Warwickshire Retail Crime Initiative (WRCI) are a great example of a county wide crime partnership working to reduce crime across multiple local areas. They work strategically with Warwickshire Police, local authorities and partners across the force area to identify and target local and traveling offenders and have this week joined the NBCS Connect network.
NBCS continually look to improve the quality of data and intelligence available to members to help target harden offenders and escalate investigations. Through the new collaborative partnership with WRCI, the intelligence gaps become smaller and offenders have less opportunity to commit crime.
The team at WRCI have already begun to engage with other members of the NBCS network through the monthly Trend Call and Data Sharing activities and have started to feel like part of the team!
August 2021:The Administrators are now visiting members and holding local scheme meetings. If you would like a vist or are are interested in joining the schem please use the contact form.
May 2021: Warwickshire Business Watch has launched the ShopKind campaign. It has three aims:
- Encourage positive behaviours in shops and licensed premises acknowledging the key role of shopworkers and staff.
- Promote crime prevention and awareness of retail related incidents, fraud and scams.
- Address violence and abuse against shopworkers.
May 2021 : In response to the growth in violence and abuse against shopworkers, the BRC has worked in co-operation with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to create an animation that can be used by any retailer to train their staff on how to deal with such threats.
View here on YouTube
April 2021: ACS’ has now launched their Crime Report 2021 which is available here The report found that retail crime has a huge economic impact on local shops, costing £142 million, but also a direct impact on people working in shops from violence and verbal abuse.
The report estimates there were over 40,000 incidents of violence and threats in the sector in the last year. 89% of store colleagues experienced verbal abuse; there were over 1.2million incidents with retailers estimating that 21% of these were hate motivated.
The sector has seen over 1.1million incidents of theft in the last year. Retailers attribute 63% of shop thefts to repeat offenders, with the majority of these motivated by a drug or alcohol addiction. Encountering shop thieves is now followed by customers not following covid guidelines and enforcing age-restrictions as top trigger for violence; duties that shopworkers are required by law to enforce.
