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Andrew Bauer – Chair Croydon Business Crime Reduction Partnership. What is the CBCP:-. A proactive partnership between town centre businesses, the metropolitan police, transport providers and Croydon Council
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Andrew Bauer – Chair Croydon Business Crime Reduction Partnership
What is the CBCP:- • A proactive partnership between town centre businesses, the metropolitan police, transport providers and Croydon Council • Originally a fee paying membership organisation, the CBCP is now fully funded by Croydon BID and is a free service to its members
Why create the CBCP:- • In 2008 there was a significant level of theft and anti-social behaviour in the town centre that directly and adversely affected businesses operating in the town. • Allied to the direct consequences of crime there was a public perception of high criminality in Croydon that deterred visitors from the town centre • A combination of the above two factors was blighting current and future investment in the town’s retail core.
CBCP: Primary Aims and Objectives • Prevent and detect crime • Reduce the fear of crime • Prevent and reduce criminality, anti-social behaviour and alcohol related disorder • Be pro-active in the apprehension and prosecution of offenders • Create efficient partnerships working between the town centre business community the police, council and other key agencies • Create a safe and secure town centre for business customers, staff and all visitors to Croydon • Achieve the Safer Shopping Award
How does it operate:- • Working collaboratively with the organisations previously listed the CBCP acts as an enforcement body operating a “three strikes and out rule” for its town centre membership • Members complete incident and intelligence forms online and the scheme manager analyses and disseminates this information back to the membership • Members submit intelligence reports • Crime trends and offenders identified • Intelligence shared in joint police and member briefings • Offenders are targeted • Exclusion notices are issued to offenders
Current Structure Note: The chair on each Sub – Committee serves on the main CBCP Board to represent the views on their specific sector.
Current Membership:- Business Watch 120 Pub Watch 28 Transport Watch 8 Hotel &Leisure Watch 7
Successful? • Achieved the Safer Shopping Award in its first year of operation. • Nineteen prolific offenders have been banned from member premises • Shoplifting re-offending rates at 12% compared to the national average of 20% • Eighty individuals re-housed following the targeting of rough sleepers • Overall crime reduced by 4% in the past year • Over 90% of town centre businesses say that the CBCP has had a positive impact • 92% of visitors to the town centre felt safe (BID Survey)
Shopping and Crime Professor Joshua A N Bamfield - Director, Centre for Retail Research Quotes from the text :- Croydon RCP was identified by the Fashion Forum survey as being the worst RCP in the Country.... and suffered one of the highest rates of store crime..... It has now become one of the best A new U S style Business Improvement District ( BID) , controlled by retailers, real-estate owners and the local authority , was created to deal with the shopping problems of Croydon town centre of which crime was one.... .......A new Business Crime Reduction Partnership ( CBRP) was created to challenge the low expectations of the previous regime: it benefitted from better funding, a desire by the Police, the BID and the local council , to make the CBRP an astonishing success (expunging the failure of the previous CRP) with a council that was extremely supportive because it feared that its town centre crime problems would lead to an exodus of major stores.
