The background to the scheme
Shoplifting and petty crime have long been a problem for all retailers. Local warning systems have evolved in many areas. These do not address the core problem for jewellers in that some of the major crime against them is carried out by specialist gangs who are often not local in origin.
Some crime prevention initiatives like Raidcontrol, another national scheme which T H March helped introduce, are aimed at reducing cash robberies which are rarely a problem for jewellers.
With increased security at banks and building societies and other potential hold-up targets for cash, jewellers have in recent years become the target for increasingly serious crime. Coupled with rising crime during the 2008/9 recession, the sums paid out by insurers have risen substantially, yet there are limits to how far premiums can rise.
Many jewellers, whether prompted by insurers or not, responded with increased security. Whilst that is important, no security can totally abolish the risk.
Local police, with limited resources, often have insufficient information from the few crimes on their patch to make it worthwhile investigating crime against jewellers. It does not help that the exchange of information between police forces is minimal, and sometimes even closely guarded. This loses the ability to build composite information about raids in different police areas.
T H March and the National Association of Goldsmiths have therefore introduced a scheme to help reduce crime.
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