BICS provides an IT infrastructure for gathering and dissemination of data by business crime reduction partnerships.
The system was developed in association with the Department of Trade and Industry and the British Retail Consortium and is currently used by over 60 crime reduction partnership schemes and 20 police forces throughout the UK.
BICS has been developed to provide:
- Offender violence warning
- Multiple address functionality
- Multiple description fields
- Exclusion order data with automated reminders
- Bail/custody dates with exclusion notice details
- Incident/offender reports (Full/Circulation)
- Identify Repeat Offenders
- Prioritise information
- Make security functions more effective
- Make retail staff feel safer
- Provide information to support ASBOs
- Powerful tool for identifying offenders
- Helps identify and reduce losses
- Provide a means of measuring results of partnerships
- Ability to send encrypted e-mails to other partnerships
- Facilitate efforts to prevent & exclude Repeat Offenders
- Comprehensive analysis & reporting functionality
