Tackling Shoplifting in the City Centre

We understand the impact that shoplifting is having on businesses in the City Centre. 

We are working with shops to help them report accurately and effectively, targeting our most prolific offenders.

We are conducting proactive patrols in hotspot areas, and around stores most effected by shoplifters.

We host a monthly Retailers Security Meeting alongside Bath BID. At this meeting we help stores identify regular shoplifters, and bring their attention to any new offenders and offending trends.

Actions

• 24 October 2024
  

  Positive Results:

  The combined Bath Neighbourhood Teams were recently successful in charging four prolific offenders with almost forty offences committed over the past few months, including several commercial burglaries and shop thefts. Two of the offenders have been remanded in custody awaiting sentencing, while a third has been recalled to prison.

  We want to thank all the businesses affected for their continued support, without which we would not have been able to achieve these results.

  Full Story: Four prolific shoplifters charged with multiple offences in Bath | Avon and Somerset Police

• 28 August 2024
  

  Over Summer City Centre Officers have continued to work alongside our ASB Team to address prolific shoplifters, and have since our last update we have:

  • Issued another Community Protection Warning specifically relating to shop theft.
  • Successfully prosecuted a chronic shoplifter for multiple offences, resulting in a sentence of over 20 weeks imprisonment.
  • Kept up our monthly Retailers Security Meetings in partnership with Bath BID, enabling local businesses to point us towards offenders they are most concerned about.
  • Launched a 3-month trial of a direct reporting system through the DISC security app, again in partnership with Bath BID. This should allow businesses to report incidents to us in a more streamlined fashion.
• 12 June 2024
  

   

  In the last week the Bath City Centre Team have issued a prolific shoplifter with a Community Protection Warning with specific conditions around shop theft.

  The support of the shops and businesses affected by offenders like these is crucial to our effort in tackling shoplifting. If you are being affected by frequent theft please get in touch with us.

   

• 24 April 2024
  

   

  Since the launch of DISC we have seen many City Centre businesses take to the platform and begin sharing information with us and each other, targeting the shoplifters that are targeting them.

  Bath BID have begun to issue Exclusion Notices to repeat offenders, and we continue to work with our ASB Team to issue Community Protection Warnings and Notices, and Criminal Behaviour Orders to the most prolific offenders.

• 1 March 2024
  

   

  Update: Launch of DISC Security System in Bath

  ‘DISC’, a new security app has launched in Bath, linking together businesses, BID marshals and the Neighbourhood Policing Team enabling us to share information and intelligence, and allows instant alerts to be sent out to users.

  Read More: www.bathbid.co.uk/bath-bid-launches-the-disc-system/