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Worcester CityNet

Worcester BID levy paying businesses can sign up for free membership of CityNet saving them up to £340 per year.

The Worcester CityNet Anti-Crime Group (WCN) is a not for profit organisation, who adopt a professional approach to combating retail, business and city centre crime within Worcester. WCN has been in operation for over 15 years and is legally bound by a constitution, Codes of Practice and Operating Guidelines. The group has its own Professional Indemnity Insurance, which covers all members and is registered with the Data Commissioners to share information with all agencies involved in the prevention and detection of crime.

WCN is a member of the local Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) involving over 140 retailers, Visit Worcester, Worcester BID, city centre CCTV, the police, local authority and other interested agencies. All parties are committed to sharing good practice, information and promoting partnership working.

Pershore, Malvern and Evesham have joined WCN as associate members. This is a new initiative and if successful the version is to include ALL the major towns in South Worcestershire.

Objectives

To support The Community Safety Strategy.
To deliver a local strategy to reduce city/town centre crime and the fear of crime.
To help businesses to trade successfully in a safe and secure environment.
To improve information sharing between the partnership and other crime reduction agencies.
To establish good practice for the collation, evaluation, analysis and dissemination of crime data locally, regionally and nationally.
To establish a strategy for identifying and sharing key performance indicators and management information.
To examine opportunities to link the group to edge of town secondary shopping areas.
To establish a local funding strategy to ensure long-term sustainability.
To increase the current membership.

Membership Benefits

Increase profits by reducing the opportunity for crime.
Increase staff confidence.
Ending business isolation.
Reducing crime and fear of crime.
Staff training.
Data collection.
Information sharing.
Photograph sharing of known offenders.
Exclusion Order Scheme - banning persistent offenders from member stores.
CCTV coverage.
Radio links with Police, CCTV and other members.
Dedicated Store Detective.
The management fo "Real Time" crime.

General

WCN is an intelligence led approach to managing city/town centre crime issues, by targeting and focussing our efforts on the most persistent offenders. Increasingly, retail, business and city/town centre crime cannot be taken in isolation. Establishing long-term sustainable strategies to manage city/town centre crime and community safety will impact on the safe and secure concept which must be at the heart of any local community safety programme. The membership of our group proves this point; we are recognised as one of the most successful schemes in the Midlands region and currently experience a 90%+ clear-up rate. The message is:-

"Can you afford not to join?"

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