Links and useful advice

The Home Office has produced a Business and Retail Crime Toolkit to provide Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships, retail partnerships and others with tools and information. The purpose of these is to:

• Help reduce business and retail crime.
• Assist in developing effective solutions to local problems.
• Support the development of good practice and promising initiatives.   

The toolkit brings together in one place information and advice about practical measures that can be adopted at a local level to identify, tackle, reduce and prevent business crime. 

It provides information on the latest developments, research findings, funding opportunities and promising approaches to tackling business crime.

Checklists for identifying problems, developing responses and monitoring progress at a local level are also contained in the toolkit. 

These comprehensive toolkits provide a way of sharing experience and ideas between local practitioners. It signposts a range of interventions currently being undertaken by Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships. 

Case summaries are detailed and contacts listed. The toolkit also lists a wide range of useful publications.  

Successive sections of the toolkit highlight the importance of:

• Targeting interventions on the businesses most at risk of crime.
• Prompt action to reduce the risk of repeat victimisation.
• Combining situational crime prevention measures with action to reduce offending   behaviour, for example through programmes to reduce young peoples involvement in shop theft and work with offenders.
•  'Joining up' economic development and crime reduction agendas. 
• Making the economic case for business involvement and action.     

Crime reduction toolkits

http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/toolkits/br00.htm (opens in a new window)

Safer Derby
http://www.saferderby.org (opens in a new window)

Secured by Design
http://www.securedbydesign.com (opens in a new window)

Derbyshire Constabulary
http://www.derbyshire.police.uk (opens in a new window)

Business Watch
www.businesswatch.org (opens in a new window)
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber facilitates Businesswatch in Derbyshire. It aims to help businesses, to improve security and reduce crime, by working with them to identify the problems and provide solutions. Beginning in 1995, the North Derbyshire Crime Reduction Partnership (as it was then known) has helped to improve security for over 1,000 companies, reducing business crime and the ongoing cost of improved security.

Products and Services

Secured By Design Licence Holders - Security Products

To be awarded Police Preferred Specification, Computer security methods must be certified to Loss Prevention Certification Board standard LPS 1214: issue 2: 1996. Specification for testing and classifying physical protection devices for personal computers and similar equipment.