— Mar 30, 2020
When push comes to shove
Agnostic LP technology prevents profiling and potential confrontation
Designing out Crime
— Dec 18, 2019
World’s first multi-camera facial recognition security system unveiled
With controversy still raging around privacy issues and the widespread deployment of facial recognition technology, one business has gone one-stage further with a claim that it has developed a system ready to go live as early as January next year.
— Dec 11, 2019
Robocop or Roboshops?
The Southern Co-op is trialling a stand-alone silent-hours protection unit that acts as both a virtual and actual deterrent to returning thieves.
— Dec 11, 2019
Healing broken Britain
How the Co-op is challenging violence and intimidation and putting people before profits.
— Jul 25, 2019
Co-op crackdown yields results
Investment in a scheme aimed at reducing crime at Central England Co-op stores has yielded significant results.
— Jun 26, 2019
Take note - holograms here to stay, says report
A new report on banknote security features reveals that increasingly sophisticated holograms will continue to play a central role in issuing authorities’ strategies to tackle counterfeiting and criminal activity.
— Jan 31, 2019
Post Office cuts crime by one third
The Post Office has reduced crime against its staff and counters by more than one third in the last three years.
— Jul 30, 2018
Criminal drive-off spike prompts interest in unmanned stations
Crisis in ‘bilking Britain’ triggers drive to ‘pay at the pump’.
— Jun 29, 2018
Test case of facial recognition
In a test case that could have far-reaching implications for retailers’ use of facial recognition technology, Big Brother Watch has launched a landmark legal challenge to the Metropolitan Police Service’s use of real-time FR cameras.
— Jul 29, 2016
The China crisis
The hologram trade body wants organisations to urgently review and redouble security plans to try to stem the ‘tidal wave’ of counterfeit goods flooding out of China.
— Sep 28, 2015
Face-to-Face Value
Facial Recognition Technology Is Ready, But When Will It Become a Permanent Feature?
— Jul 31, 2015
Technology puts the block on account blocking
A new technology using behavioural analytics to reduce the number of times debit and credit cards are being blocked by mistake, has claimed a 70 per cent success rate during trials.
— May 28, 2015
EU launches offensive on organised crime
The EU has launched an educational offensive to explain the dangers of organised crime – what it is and how to tackle it - to millions of citizens.
— Oct 27, 2014
Christmas mobile misery?
UK retailers are set to enjoy the most successful mobile Christmas to date, but they will miss out on nearly £2.5bn in sales due to outdated mobile check-out experiences, according to scan and validation company Jumio.
— Sep 23, 2014
Opportunity Makes a Thief
Employment Advice for European Retailers By Audrey Williams, Partner, Eversheds LLP
— Aug 15, 2014
New graduates risking their futures
Young people are being warned of the consequences of lying on job applications as thousands of recent graduates enter the job market and make their first attempts to get on the career ladder.
— Apr 30, 2014
'Hand' held technology for cashless payments
A student in Sweden is believed to have found a way to make instant cashless payments more secure by using people's unique vein patterns.
— Mar 26, 2014
Preventing Violence to Shop Workers - Ten Years of the Freedom from Fear Campaign
According to the European initiative and report Preventing Workplace Violence and Harassment, the office, factory, or shop should not be settings where people are subjected to threats of or actual violence, harassment, or bullying.
— Mar 20, 2014
Holistic approach to ‘hole in the wall’ – the artful design against ATM crime
Art around ATMs can help reduce street crime, according to the latest research from the Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) in London.
— Nov 26, 2013
Shoplifting Scams and Designing out Crime
So-called “magic bags” continue to be used by professional thieves as the image of bags shown below confiscated by a shopping centre in Kent, U.K., indicates. These foil-lined carriers work because the lining prevents the alarms actually connecting with the tag when passing through scanners. Despite penalties imposed on thieves for going equipped with these bags, and despite the best efforts of detectives as well as technology to spot magic bag use (such as Alert Guide that can read whether or not a bag has metal in it as people enter a store), the foil-lined bag remains a useful tool of the would-be shoplifter. No wonder the Global Retail Theft Barometer 2011, a worldwide shrinkage survey of 43 countries, shows that losses relating to shoplifting (overall shrinkage) rose to $119 billion in 2011—up 6.6 per cent since 2010—costing retailers $51.5 billion in 2011 (43.2 per cent of total shrinkage) compared to $45.4 billion in 2010.
— Mar 25, 2013
The Power of Partnerships
John Fonteijn, Director of Group Asset Protection at Royal Ahold Group explains how the ECR Group has helped reduce losses within his business.
