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Security and Resilience

Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of everyone in the town centre has always been our priority. Hammersmith BID is committed to improving the security of Hammersmith and continues to strengthen business resilience through key partnerships with the Met Police, community engagement, and Safer Neighbourhood officers.
Key Proposals

Measures to improve public health concerns and business confidence in the town centre

To reassure staff and visitors to the town centre, we will maintain and expand supporting features including signage, hand sanitising provision and social distancing measures.

Additional support for home/office connections

These to include environmentally friendly deliveries between office and home, well-being services and networking opportunities including virtual events.

Extra cleansing programme

We will continue to invest in additional cleansing, including of public touch-points, to protect your staff and help them feel more comfortable in a post-COVID town centre.

To provide a Business Crime Reduction Partnership

This will include leading on our PubWatch and ShopWatch schemes that assist retailers and hospitality premises address crime and antisocial behaviour concerns with the full support of the Metropolitan Police and Hammersmith & Fulham Council.

Continuing our SafetyNet Radio service

Building on the strong security links we have already established, we will continue to provide a dedicated town link radio system that dynamically connects businesses directly to the wider CCTV network and support.

Strengthening business resilience through key partnerships

We will support businesses by providing our own bespoke Hammersmith business continuity plan as well as ensuring they have the latest training products from counter terrorism policing and specialist cyber-crime advice.

Offering free bicycle security marking, maintenance and crime prevention advice

Bespoke year-round events for Hammersmith employees and businesses both in-house and in Lyric Square.

 

Security and Resilience News
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Security and Resilience Projects

Business Crime Reduction Partnership

Our Business Crime Reduction Partnership (BCRP) is an initiative that unites Hammersmith BID with our neighbours at Fulham Broadway BID, Safer Business Network and long-established partners such as the Metropolitan Police. By pooling resources and expertise, we are able to strategically address issues, combat criminal activities, and tackle antisocial behaviour. Together, we create a safer environment for our thriving business community and visitors.

Our BCRP initiatives include:

  • Pubwatch, Shopwatch, and Building Safety Group — Steering groups focused on crime reduction and promoting safety in the town centre during the day and night time economy.
  • Safer Business Network – Focus on promoting safety and security by engaging with our businesses and tying into larger, area-wide networks.
  • SafetyNet Radio & CCTV – A radio system that provides our business community and visitors to the area with enhanced safety and security.
  • WalkSafe App – A free personal safety app with an enhanced feature highlighting local safe spaces and route-sharing.
  • Alert! — Our secure and GDPR-compliant intelligence platform enables businesses to share and report intelligence about offenders. It’s easy to use and highly effective.

Find out more…

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Women’s Safety Forum

Hammersmith BID is working with our local community to create a safe and accessible town centre, night and day, for all women and girls.

Through close consultation with businesses and stakeholders, the BID created their Women’s Safety discussion paper – which is titled “Every Woman has a right to feel safe in her city”.

Find out more…

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Crime Prevention & Community Safety

From seasonal crime prevention campaigns to year-round events and security initiatives, we are working closely with our key partners and stakeholders to ensure our business community and visitors to the area continue to enjoy a safe and pleasant town centre in which to work, socialise, and shop.

Additional Safer Town support includes:

  • Creating safer spaces across Hammersmith by promoting the ‘Safe Spaces’ initiative and local safe space locations.
  • Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and creating a strategy for this issue through our Women’s Safety Forums
  • Facilitating seasonal crime prevention campaigns
  • Hosting regular engagement events with local safety and security partners, including the Safer Neighbourhood Team.
  • Raising awareness of Hate Crime and tackling the issue
  • Hosting Dr Bikes and Bike Marking (security marking) events.
SafetyNet Radio & CCTV

Whether at your place of work, shopping, socialising or just passing through; your safety really matters to us. The Hammersmith BID SafetyNet radio system plays a pivotal role in crime reduction across the town centre and provides our business community and visitors to the area with an enhanced level of safety and security. A few examples are:

Business Resilience

By utilising specialist knowledge in emergency planning and risk management, our business resilience support assists our levy payers in creating bespoke systems of prevention and recovery to mitigate threats to their operating capabilities in the event of a critical incident, cyber-attack, or terrorist incident.

From small shops to our corporate giants, this is how we are supporting you:

  • Business Continuity Plan template created by the BID that is available to the business community on request
  • Hosting bespoke counter-terrorism workshops
  • Reducing risk across our business community and crowded places through our CCTV scheme
  • Sharing cyber-crime advice and webinars
  • Providing ongoing advice and recommendations for additional support