18 Mar BCRP Awareness Week 2025
In 2023, Hammersmith BID revived its Business Crime Reduction Partnership (BCRP) with the Police, Council, Fulham BID and Safer Business Network – the latter of which is funded by the BIDs to operate in our borough.
Fast-forward to 2025 and we can proudly report that the Partnership has seen over 1,298 business engagements, 106 Police engagements, and recovered £21,448 of goods in 2024 in Hammersmith alone.
Together, shared intelligence has also led to several criminals receiving exclusion notices, banning them from the Town Centre. Meanwhile, through our GDPR-compliant intelligence platform Alert, last year we empowered businesses to report over 272 incidents and log 303 offenders. This shared information helps us to identify those that harm our businesses and make our streets unsafe; and with that information being fed to the Police and Council, it can yield tangible results.
To mark BCRP Awareness Week on 17 March we engaged with retail BID levy paying businesses. Joined by our security partners – Safer Business Network, three Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and two Police Officers from the Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNTs) including the sergeant – we distributed security materials to 13 flagship highstreet businesses.
The day of engagement resulted in two prolific offenders being issued a CPW (Community Protection Warning), another offender deterred from the Hammersmith area and a wanted offender being arrested for failure to appear in court.
Our Business Crime Reduction Partnership (BCRP) runs throughout the year and we’ve collected our progress report from January 2024 to Febraurt 2025.
Throughout Hammersmith and Fulham, we’ve engaged with 2584 businesses, published 158 bulletins, identified 503 offenders, engaged with the police 256 times, reported 572 incidents and recovered £37,960.99 worth of goods.
Additional information
To find out more about the BCRP and how you can get involved, you can also contact info@hammersmithbid.co.uk. Do also share with us any case studies or success stories – we love to hear about our partnership in action.