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Worcester remains a safe city with an excellent anti crime operation. You wanted more of the same projects with increased attention on the evening and nighttime economy and closer liaison with the public through the Street Rangers and Taxi Marshals.
93 businesses receive free membership of CityNet and 56 for NightSafe
We will continue to allow any BID business to benefit from free membership to CityNet, Worcester’s highly successful retail crime partnership scheme, which directly links businesses to the Police and the CCTV control room. The BID will fund, host and manage the CityNet office and officers for 36 hours per week. The BID’s Crime Prevention Manager will also provide free business crime advice at your premises to any relevant staff.
We will also offer free membership of the Nightsafe scheme, which aims to reduce anti social behaviour in pubs, clubs, restaurants and other businesses open at night. This ensures that more businesses are able to be a part of this scheme, which works in a similar way to CityNet. It also ensures exclusion orders for individuals prosecuted cover all member premises.
The BID will fund a part time roaming store detective to identify shoplifters around the BID area and work with other store detectives and the Police to bring them to justice.
We will employ 2 fully trained, full time, friendly and helpful BID Street Rangers who will be the eyes and ears of the BID and will liaise with businesses, report any damage or mess which requires urgent attention, provide accurate and timely information to businesses, residents and visitors to the city centre on shops, services, facilities, attractions and events. The Rangers will also assist with lost children, and carry out routine, daily high visibility foot patrols with the aim of improving the visitor experience through customer service. They will also be highly trained to use social media to help promote the goods and services of BID businesses and will continue to run the Meet & Greet service for coach visitors to the city.
We will employ Taxi Marshals to operate at The Cross predominantly on Saturdays between 10.30pm and 4.30am and at other key times in the year. They will help to reduce anti social behaviour, avoid queue jumping and will generally ensure that people feel safe in this area and get home quicker.
We will fund any costs associated with PubWatch Online, the anti crime internet based programme which provides an instant intelligence communication channel to all authorised BID businesses who are NightSafe members.
