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Case Studies

How customers around the country are using Disc to drive down crime and ASB

  • Driving down crime, encouraging engagement, and supporting GDPR compliance

    North Notts Business Improvement District was the first BID to cover an entire area instead of just a town- or city-centre, or a specific industrial estate. Today it is driving down business crime right across the district, with the help of Disc SC. Driving down business-related crime and anti-social behaviour was a priority in the…

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  • How Guildford’s BID has driven down low-level business crime – and can prove it

    As Guildford’s Business Improvement District – ‘Experience  Guildford’ – approaches the end of its second five-year term, Pete Lambert, the Town Safety & Venue Liaison Manager, is confident of re-election, thanks among other things, to the strength of its Business Crime Reduction Partnership. “We’ve had the BCRP for information-sharing for the best part of 10…

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  • How Disc supports a sensitive approach in Liverpool

    For the Liverpool BID Company and the levy payers it works for, driving down low-level crime and anti-social behaviour across the city centre is a key priority. But in this traditionally generous city, the BID adopts a sensitive approach to the problems of rough sleeping, street drinking and begging… The Liverpool BID Company manages two…

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  • Driving down low-level crime and ASB in Gloucester and beyond

    Set up in 2014, Gloucester City Safe is one of the UK’s most successful – and certainly the most studied – business crime reduction schemes in the UK. And at the heart of its success is Disc. From scratch, Gloucester City Safe has grown both geographically (it now covers the neighbouring town of Stroud) and…

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  • Reducing crime in Sheffield by protecting ‘vulnerable’ Offenders

    Around the country, Business Crime Reduction Partnerships help to reduce low-level business crime and anti-social behaviour.  Now, some are working to identify ‘vulnerable’ Offenders as early as possible to reduce future crime… Sheffield City Council’s Business Crime Team is based in its city-centre CCTV control room.  From there it runs the Sheffield Business Crime Partnership,…

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  • Preventing and deterring low-level crime in Carlisle – with Disc

    Carlisle Shopwatch was set up in 1996 with the strong support of Cumbria Constabulary, working with the local council and retailers. With the gradual reduction in on-the-ground policing in the city-centre, its effectiveness suffered: twenty years later the scheme was effectively dead. But as low-level retail crime and anti-social behaviour grew in and around Carlisle’s…

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There’s so much more to Disc than we can cover here. We’d be delighted to show you the system at work and demonstrate its capabilities, either remotely or in person.