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Retailers Crime Prevention Toolkit

This Retailers Crime Prevention Toolkit has been designed at the request of the Home Office, through a collaboration between the National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) and Police Crime Prevention Initiatives (Police CPI) to provide useful information and guidance to support you in keeping your business safe from crime and to help you to prevent crime impacting both your staff and your business.

Retailers Crime Prevention Toolkit

List of DOCOs by Police Force

Designing Out Crime Officers (DOCOs) liaise with the Local Authority Planning Officers, Architects, Developers and Agents to design out crime and reduce opportunities for crime and ASB (anti-social behaviour).

Design Out Crime Officers (DOCOs) are embedded in their local authorities and play a major part in the future of community safety within their area.

Find a DOCO

Crime Prevention & Security Advice

Secured by Design provide practical advice and best practise to reduce and prevent crime. Categories include personal and home safety, to vehicles and cybersecurity.

Alongside practical advice, Secured by Design list member companies that offer certified and tested products that meet the standards expected from the Police. SBD certified producs are listed per category at the bottom of the page.

Crime Prevention & Security Advice

Reducing Violence against Retail Staff

This document, provided by the NBCC, aims to help retailers identify the key drivers of violence against staff in the retail environment and provide guidance on how to prevent or mitigate the associated threat of violence and abuse of staff.

We recognise that violence and abuse can take place in many forms and in a wide range of businesses, small or large. This guidance can be used by employers to help support their staff, but also by employees themselves.

Violence against Staff in the Retail Sector

Crime Prevention: Theft from Shops

This document, provided by the NBCC, gives actionable advice, tips on identifying potential thieves, and valuable information for shop owners and retail workers to help reduce levels of crime in their stores.

Crime Prevention: Theft from Shops