Repeat Victimisation

Rationale

It has been noted that in Vale Royal the incidents of a person being a victim of crime on more that one occasion are higher than the national average. Many repeat victims are in the retail and business sector.

Our Aim

To reduce the impact that shoplifting and other thefts has on public reassurance and to reduce levels of repeat victimisation by targeting measurable actions and informing them of the progress of these actions and the work of the Vale Royal Community Safety Partnership.

Our objectives

We will investigate to ascertain whether there is any pattern to repeat victims.
We will identify those most at risk of becoming repeat victims.
We will continue with a project to ‘target harden’ those who are vulnerable to this.
We will regularly liase with victim support agencies.
We will conduct environmental improvements where these may have an impact on repeat victimisation.
Develop and implement ‘shop watch’ and ‘business watch’ schemes and an anti-shoplifting strategy.
To provide guidance on protecting motor vehicles and property in them to all residing, working or visiting the Borough.

What we have done

Put in place a system for monitoring repeat victims and any patterns.
Established a target hardening process and reporting mechanism to SAFE a charitable organisation who carry out the necessary work.
During last year we referred 162 victims to SAFE, of these 28 were burglary victims and 77 were target hardening for vulnerable people.