CHAMBER NEWS Free crime-fighting scheme available
Up to 2,000 businesses in Chesterfield can sign up for free to an East Midlands Chamber-run scheme that helps to reduce town centre crime and anti-social behaviour. The Business Crime Reduction
Partnership (BCRP) has secured funding from Chesterfield Borough Council to offer access to Disc, an online crime information-sharing system that connects businesses with local police forces. There will be no cost for the first
12 months, with subsequent years costing up to £100 – and potentially lower if enough businesses take up the programme permanently. Jackie Roberts, BCRP manager
at the Chamber, said: “Businesses in town and city centres are struggling at the moment and crime will only make this worse. “The Disc portal is an integral part
of crime reduction strategies as it makes it so much easier for businesses to share intelligence about incidents and offender images between members, police, community safety officers and other partners such as the BCRP team. “We’ve had a lot of reports
during lockdown because police resources have been really
There are currently about 80
businesses in Chesterfield signed up to an advanced version of the BCRP scheme that also includes radio connections. The new funding will give about
2,000 businesses in sectors such as retail, hospitality and tourism the opportunity to sign up for the basic package, which uses the online Disc system. It will be launched at the beginning of May ahead of the reopening of hospitality in the Government’s roadmap to ending lockdown. Discussions are ongoing on how
stretched due to sickness, so the BCRP fills the gap where police can’t deal with petty crime. “By working with local authorities such as Chesterfield Borough Council, we’re delighted to offer this scheme for free to businesses in order to make them more resilient – a key theme during the post-Covid economic recovery.” The BCRP, one of 200 such
programmes in the UK, is funded by both the Chamber and the Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s office.
Its remit to reduce crime in participating towns, cities and retail parks fits into an overall objective to make them a safer place to work, visit, socialise and shop. Members pay a fee and benefits
include a GDPR-compliant data- sharing system that facilitates direct reporting to the police without the need to use the time- consuming 101 system. Intelligence and crime reports
can be submitted electronically to the police and other BCRP members.
to roll out the offer to Staveley, while there are plans to roll out the Disc scheme in Matlock and Bakewell, in which a combined 40 businesses are signed up to the radio system. Jackie added: “The more
businesses that are involved in the BCRP scheme and sharing information, the stronger it will be – and the better the area will be as a result.”
Anyone interested in discussing how to get involved with the Derbyshire Business Crime Reduction Partnership can email
jackie.roberts@
emc-dnl.co.uk
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