BP has implemented staff body-worn cameras in a bid to “combat retail crime effectively” in stores facing high levels of abuse and crime.
Alongside the introduction of Reveal body cameras, the retail giant has also launched Auror retail crime intelligence platform across its 300 convenience stores in the coming months.
The intelligence platform is designed to help reduce verbal abuse incidents, tackle retail crime and enable incident reporting, identification of repeat offenders and both collaboration with law enforcement and real-time alerts on criminal activity.
BP vice president of mobility and convenience retail Sonya Adams said: “Safety comes first at BP; we are always looking at ways we can create a safer working environment for colleagues and a better retail experience for customers.
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“We serve millions of customers every week with the vast majority of transactions being pleasant and positive. However, in line with the rest of the retail sector, we are seeing an increase in crime and abuse of our colleagues, and that’s unacceptable.
“We will continue to collaborate with others in the sector, and invest in technology like Auror and the Reveal body cameras, to help us combat these issues.”
BP’s latest commitment in keeping colleagues and customers safe follows suit of other retailers in the UK.
Grocers including Lidl, Aldi, Co-op and Tesco have all rolled out body-worn to staff, while some retailers like Morrisons have implemented various other technologies to tackle crime.
In recent years, the supermarket giant has trialled police terminals ‘RoboCop’ style security cameras along its alcohol aisles, while last September Morrisons unveiled a fleet of CCTV vans to address rising levels of retail crime.
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The plague of retail criminals continues as the super soft judges do NOTHING.
Why not round up convicted shoplifters and sentence them to 20 years as standard? Save cost, “offshore them”? Could you send them to someplace like Uzbekistan? In the case that the criminal is on benefits of any kind, these should be revoked, and all cash and assets seized to cover the costs of the crime.
Got kids? No problem, we class criminals as unfit parents and take the kids to an education camp complex to rescue the young from incapable parents. We class them as not mentally able to fit into society, thus they can no longer parent children. We have no need and see no value in feckless urchins, so we have to reeducate them.
By excluding the criminal classes from society they will simply no longer replicate and thus the problem will vanish. This is a very harsh solution, but Britain is in a crime-ridden social crisis. The Courts and judges have failed. Why not stamp out criminals using super hard tactics?