Retail Scheme
How does it work?
Central to the success of the initiative is the flow of information. Members of the Safer Aberdeen Retail Scheme keep information circulating and up to date. This is done by completing incident and offender reporting forms. The forms have been designed to be filled in speedily with a majority of details recorded in tick boxes.
These forms are then passed to the Safer Aberdeen Programme Managers office for the information and images to be entered onto a national database. Regular bulletins and newsletters are produced from this information and intelligence and are then circulated to all members.
What Safer Aberdeen can do for you?
"We have a well established partnership with the Safer Aberdeen team who continue to provide a significant contribution to security and safety across the city. The information they produce is circulated to city centre businesses and has proved invaluable on countless occasions in the detection of crime.
The Radio Link has resulted in a more cohesive approach in tackling crime in the city centre where businesses can update the Police direct about an incident as it happens.
The success of the Safer Aberdeen initiative is due to its excellent partnership approach, drawing together businesses and other services from across the city in working together to make Aberdeen a safer place.
This joined-up approach ensures that Aberdeen city centre remains an unattractive destination for criminals to come to because of the targeted policing, the extensive CCTV coverage and the businesses who are informed and linked together in tackling crime"
- Iain MacLelland, Grampian Police
The Retail Scheme will help reduce the impact and amount of crime on your business by doing the following:
- Collate, store and circulate information and images of known offenders
- Provide members with regular bulletins and newsletters giving updated information
- Provide information and guidance in accordance with relevant legislation
- Provide a direct link to Grampian Police via the ShopSafe radio network
- Serve Exclusion Notices on persistent offenders
- Provide staff training and advice on security, counter terrorism awareness and crime reduction
Data Protection
Safer Aberdeen depends on the sharing of information between members. This means all members of the initiative must be registered in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, for the purpose of sharing and holding personal information for "Crime Prevention and Prosecution of Offenders".
ShopSafe Radio Link
- Safer Aberdeen Retail Scheme has been operating with ShopSafe Radio Link for a number of years and has grown to a membership of over 100 retailers
- Additional radios are held by the City Centre Police Unit and CCTV
- Radio Link provides a method of instant communication between retailers, CCTV and the City Centre Police Unit
- Provides a comprehensive monitoring and communication network
- Radio Link is an inexpensive and cost-effective method of managing real-time crime
Please note that before you can join Radio Link you must first be a member of Safer Aberdeen.
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Contact(s)
- Safer Aberdeen Programme Manager
Aberdeen City Council
Old Town House
Aberdeen AB10 1AQ
Phone: 01224 523367
Email: saferaberdeen@aberdeencity.gov.uk