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You are not alone! You will be much more effective if you team up with others who are working to tackle crime in your area.

• Get involved with your local Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership, where you can help provide solutions to your own and other people's crime problems.
• Link up with other businesses in your area to share the latest local information on crime prevention and risks.
• Keep an eye on neighbouring businesses and ask them to do the same for you.
• Join or form a local Business Watch scheme.
• Get in touch with the ‘Action Against Business Crime Group', which is developing new business crime partnerships in town and city centres.
• Use 'exclusion orders' to keep undesirable people away and ask local police or your local authority to take action against those acting anti-socially.
• Get in touch with neighbourhood, street or community wardens.
• Think about setting up a Business Improvement District (BID) to improve security in ways such as CCTV, replacing street lamps or acting quickly to get rid of graffiti.
• And of course, partnering with Crimestoppers is one of the easiest and most effective ways of deterring crime. Using our logo and posters in your business is a proven method of preventing crime. Contact the Fundraising Team online or call us on 020 8835 3700.