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GREAT BRITAIN’S ‘FRAUDSCAPE’
FROM ‘ORIS TO BORIS’ – CROYDON IS NAMED CAPITAL FOR ‘OFF-THE-PEG’
FASHION FRAUD AS SURVEY FINDINGS ARE SENT TO MAYOR OF LONDON
LONDON may be one of the in the lists of ‘hot’ towns, justice system to take business the fashion retailers in
fashion centres of the world, according to figures compiled crime more seriously as part of different formats reflecting
but one of its suburbs has by the Fashion Forum which is the Fashion Forum’s pooling the different reporting
been branded as Great comprised of the heads of loss of best practice intelligence. procedures of each business.
Britain’s fashion crime capital prevention for most of the A similar initiative is being However there was a
by some of the High Street’s leading clothes brands on the examined by the new Mayor consistency in the findings
biggest names. High Street. of London Boris Johnson who when we analysed the data
Croydon in South London is The Forum combined its is already talking to senior and apportioned points for
officially the worst location for data for 230 city and town police officers about US-style crime hotspots in terms of loss
stock loss or ‘shrinkage’ caused centres, including those in ‘crime mapping’ in order to and frequency that centres
by theft, according to the Northern Ireland and Eire deploy London officers more appeared in the lists of hot
Retail Loss Prevention Fashion during a three month period. effectively. towns. Outside Oxford Street,
Forum. Each member fed its own The findings of the ORIS Croydon scored highest in
Fashion is high on the ‘shrink’ data to independent study are to be sent to Mayor both categories while
shopping list of fraudsters loss prevention specialists ORIS of London after initial contact Canterbury scored lowest.”
who cost the UK economy £3 where the results were was made with Boris “This kind of analysis was a
billion in 2007, according to analysed to produce the Johnson’s office. test to see whether a form of
the respected Global Retail league table representing Croydon recorded more mapping could help retailers
Theft Barometer compiled by Britain’s ‘fraudscape’. stock loss beating a number work together with police
Professor Joshua Bamfield of The initiative – which also of major cities including and Town Centre Partnerships
the Centre for Retail Research. put Canterbury in Kent as the Birmingham, Cardiff, Dublin, to prioritise officer
Only Oxford Street in central lowest fraud spot in the survey Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, deployment where crime is
London came higher than the – is designed to provide joint Liverpool and Manchester. high. We now hope to discuss
SE19 borough, although evidence to the affected police Andrew Wood, managing this in more detail with the
Croydon beat Britain’s premier forces in order to prioritise director of The ORIS Group Mayor of London who we
shopping street for the officer deployment. It is also which analysed the figures, know is sympathetic to this
number of times it appeared aimed at helping the criminal said: “The data came in from approach.”
ALL IN A DAY’S WORK
FROM RIVER ISLAND TO ORIS, JO DAY GOES IN AT
THE DEEP END TO DELIVER SHRINKSCHOOL
EVERY day will literally be a school day as River Island’s former senior profit
protection manager Jo Day joins the ORIS Group consulting team to deliver its
unique Shrinkschool and Loss Prevention Academy (LPA) packages to the retail and
security supplier industries.
Previously responsible for 70 stores across Scotland, North East, North West,
Yorkshire and flagship stores in Manchester, Birmingham, Barcelona, Amsterdam
and the opening this year of the new store in Madrid, Jo is no stranger to hard
work, which is why she has been selected to support Anne Frost, director of ORIS
Consulting to deliver Shrinkschool and investigation training.
Currently being provided to some of the UK’s leading retail organisations,
Shrinkschool is ORIS Consulting’s unique education package for retailers that offers
the A to Z of shrink measurement and management that provides loss prevention
managers with the essential tools to identify and control their losses. The LPA offers
similar training techniques to the security supplier sector so that they better
understand the demanding retail environment and can tailor solutions accordingly.
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