Shoplifting
The Bournville and Oldmixon One Team are committed to preventing and detecting crime. The area we police has many retail/commercial premises which result in high demand of shoplifting offences being reported in the area.
Actions
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Wednesday 31st October, 2018
To help reduce the number of incidents, the team’s aims are to:
- Increase patrols/visibility around our retail premises
- Target known offenders with stop searches
- Refer known offenders to other services
- Team up with other agencies to deter theft
- Use problem-solving techniques to unpick why offenders are offending and if referrals to other agencies can assist with this
- Work alongside retail premises in regards to security and stock placement
- Look at putting in a storenet system to enable different premises and agencies to share intelligence and pre-warn when offenders are in the area
- Arrest and educate offenders
- Make use of Criminal behaviour Orders