Working with businesses to stop crime

Harborough District Business Watch

We know how important it is to our businesses to have a mechanism in place to share information on crime and anti-social behaviour, which in turn helps them to feel protected, and looked for a secure, data compliant solution for this. 

Following a succesful demonstration of the DISC App, businesses are now being invited to join the new scheme which will be known as Harborough District Business Watch which will be free of charge for the first two years. It will be an independent scheme run as an Association of Businesses, funded initially by HDCSP and UK Government funding.

For further information on how to join the scheme please contact communitysafety@harborough.gov.uk

What is DISC?

DISC helps local crime reduction schemes to self-manage low-level crime/retail theft and Anti-Social Behaviour across their communities. Using the DISC smartphone App and secure Desktop scheme, members collect information about ‘Persons of Interests’, access galleries showing the most active or those who have been banned from their premises, and exchange useful current awareness information about safety and security issues of direct local concern.

Members can exchange urgent, important information with each other using Disc’s built-in Instant Messaging system, receive Alerts from their Disc administrator, and receive an automated eNewsletter each week, which keeps them informed about everything added to their Disc system in the previous seven days.

More information can be found on the DISC website:

Disc - A Crime Information-Sharing System For UK Business & Rural Communities (discagainstcrime.com)

Business Crime Prevention Advice

Download Leicestershire Police advice on improving security measures at your business (.docx file).

There is further crime prevention information available at www.leics.police.uk