Yeovil Crime Reduction Team

Working together to reduce retail and licensing crime and anti-social behaviour. Working with other community groups in order to provide a safer community. We have received an award from Police Crime Prevention Initiatives (PCPI), which works alongside the Police Service to encourage and deliver safer communities. Our hard work has also been rewarded with a 'Business Crime Reduction Partnership' Award from Police Crime Prevention Initiatives, the BCRP accreditation body, which runs a number of crime prevention initiatives to deter and reduce crime. We have gained these awards through the hard work of all members of Shop Watch, Pub Watch and the outreach support work carried out by our own dedicated team. The aim is to break the cycle of repeat offending and social exclusion and to try to tackle the underlying issues. These could be mental health, drug abuse, homelessness, difficulties with welfare benefits, domestic violence or a number of these, or other issues.