Business Crime Reduction

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• Business Crime Reduction
• for Gravesham

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• Introduction to G SAFE
• Set up about 10 years ago
• 81 members across Gravesham
• Multi National 42
• Night Time Economy 22
• Independents 15
• Charities 3

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• Cost of Annual Membership
• Multiple Operators - 450
• Night Time Economy - 350
• Independents - 250
• Additional Radio - 160

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• Included in membership fees, each member
  receives
• Two way walkie-talkie radio, connecting to CCTV
  Control, Police and other members
• Information on current Crime Trends
• Information on current active offenders
• Photographs of known offenders
• Exclusion Scheme
• Newsletter
• Monthly members meetings
• Daily Street Briefings for daytime with plans to
  carry this to the night time economy

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• G SAFE and the Night Time Economy
• NTE exclusions proportionate and necessary,
  stopping people having access to what they are
  doing wrong.
• Some licensed premises have a condition on their
  licence to be a member
• Licensing returns from Medway to flag up NTE
  incidents which can then be investigated and may
  lead to an exclusion/warning letter

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• G SAFE Pod
• Awarded lt20k to purchase a Peugeot Boxer
  Converted van for outreach in the NTE delivering
• Engagement with community
• Better Communication from licensed premises
  including door teams incident reporting
• Alcohol Awareness events including breathalysing
• Partnership working with Street Pastors
• Available for hire for community events

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• Safer Socialising Award
• Awarded to individual premises
• Valid for two years and may be withdrawn if there
  are substantial infringements of the requirements
• Inspections by
• Kent Police
• GBC Licensing
• KFRS
• Trading Standards
• G SAFE

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• Benefits
• Improving standards of management, community
  safety and crime reduction.
• Encourages co-operation between licensees, BCRPs
  and other agencies.
• Provides a framework and helps licensees to take
  positive action in dealing with problems and
  offers increased reassurance to staff and public.
• Encourages higher standards of incident
  reporting.
• Provides ready performance and management
  information through incident reporting to the
  partnership.

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• Benefits cont
• Fosters trust between the business community and
  statutory agencies and leads to improved levels
  of co-operation and engagement in
  respect of intelligence gathering and information
  sharing.
• Pro-active and sustained management of the scheme
  places few additional burdens on statutory
  agencies with the scheme designed to be
  self-funding and partnership managed.
• By providing a good practice health-check for
  licensees it provides benefit for licensed
  businesses and for those who live in, work in and
  visit the area covered by the partnership by
  reassuring them that local licensed premises are
  safe and well run places to visit.

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• The Role of the Member 
• To achieve the Safer Socialising Award
• licensed premises must 
• be members of the partnership 
• agree to be inspected and to comply with the
  conditions of the award 
• make any improvements required by the inspection 
• maintain the standards agreed at the time of the
  award 
• notify the partnership of any departures from
  those standards 
• support the work of the partnership to reduce
  crime, disorder and alcohol-related anti-social
  behaviour and create a safe and secure business
  environment for the day and evening economies.

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• Sophie Jordan
• G SAFE Coordinator
• Sophie.jordan_at_g-safe.org.uk
• 07854 074 254

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