A new infrastructure for sharing information about low-level crime and anti-social behaviour was launched at the BSIA conference-exhibition in Brighton, United Kingdon. The system, by Littoralis Limited, is already in use in central London and the Brighton-based company hopes to extend it across the country over the next 12 months.

DISC Network allows local shopwatches, pubwatches, and other business crime reduction partnerships to link into data-sharing groups to identify and monitor travelling offenders such as professional shoplifters and fraudsters.

As the software firm says, it’s an aspect of criminal behaviour which is difficult – and costly – for police to address yet DISC Network is being deployed across the country at no cost to taxpayers or government.

The launch of DISC Network was announced at the BSIA’s South East England Regional Crime Conference at Brighton’s Amex Stadium by Littoralis director Charlie Newman, pictured. He said: “This is really an exciting day for us and for our DISC users throughout the UK. I truly believe that DISC Network will make a substantial contribution to reducing crime and anti-social behaviour nationwide. Our DISC system is used by more than 100 local crime reduction partnerships throughout the country and has helped them reduce business crime in their own localities.

Now each of them can use DISC Network ? completely free of charge ? to keep tabs on semi-professional and professional crooks and fraudsters who keep a low profile largely by moving around the country, between police jurisdictions and exploiting the fact that there is little or no regional or national tracking system to monitor their activities.[…]

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