Alert is an AI-powered, real-time crime intelligence platform (website & app), designed for retailers and police to predict, prevent, and manage crime. It facilitates immediate, secure information-sharing among businesses and law enforcement, covering offender identification, evidence sharing, and situational awareness to curb retail theft and enhance staff safety.
Benefits
For businesses, Alert brings many specific benefits, which help them stay connected, including:
- Fast, accurate incident reporting in 60 seconds or less
- Secure instant messaging between users, police and the BID
- Proactive crime prevention bulletins to raise awareness and inform
The broader benefits for the town centre include:
- A shared view of local crime trends and risks
- Support for local police in preventing crime caused by prolific offenders
- Information sharing in a GDPR compliant environment
Trial
Bishop’s Stortford has been selected as one of four locations in Hertfordshire to trial Alert. The trial will be led by the Bishop’s Stortford Business Improvement District (BID). Alert is supported and funded by the county’s Police & Crime Commissioner, Jonathan Ash-Edwards, as part of ongoing work to make town centres safer, with a view to rolling it out across Hertfordshire. The platform is already popular in nearby Essex, Suffolk and London, as well as other parts of the UK.
Costs
None. Access to Alert is free for BID businesses.
Sign Up
Please email Madeleine Lees at mads@bishopsstortfordbid.co.uk and you will be sent an invitation to join.
Thank you for helping us make Bishop’s Stortford a safer place to work, live, shop and socialise.
