City Watch Leicester Membership Features

When you sign up to City Watch Leicester you will receive :

• Co-ordinator to administer the scheme, develop an effective partnership between the police and business.
• Monthly intelligence meetings with security staff to share information more professionally
• Photographs will be distributed of target offenders and excluded persons
• Staff training on related matters, ie. action to take, theft, id of suspects, what to look for etc.
• Use of radios
• Witness support
• Use of and licence for the city watch radio
• Liaison between radio staff
• Liaison between cctv staff
• Data protection registration
• Professional indemnity insurance
• Key performance indicators, ie. Arrests, determents, value of property stolen / recovered.
• Membership to Midland Regional Crime Initiative, (MRCI), in order to share intelligence relating to travelling criminals.
• Maintain computer records for Active Crime Intelligence System (ACIS) crime pattern analysis, linking 250 other schemes nationwide to combat travelling criminals.
• Daily intelligence via email
• Membership to the exclusion notice scheme
• 'Exclusion notices operate here' signs for doors/windows.
• Awarded the home office 'safer business award' 2005
• During 2006/2007 four members of the partnership reduced their stock losses between them by £351,000's. One new member was losing stock to the value of £550 per week. Since joining, after a month, this has been reduced to one item.
• Monthly newsletters relating to partnership progress.
• Photograph retrieval from video cassettes and CD's.