2. What is SIRCS
• On-line application used by retail and night-time businesses in
England and Scotland to reduce crime and ASB
• Securely accessible via the internet and mobile devices
• A database of incidents and offenders including their Images
• Members log in to view, report and share information
locally and nationally
• Used to run a scheme and/or sector-wide banning scheme
3. Who uses SIRCS *
* staff and/or 3rd party security companies access SIRCS at these companies
4. SIRCS v Traditional Schemes
Traditional Retail and Pubwatch Schemes
• Are time consuming and inefficient
• Provide slow, ineffective reporting and information sharing
• Photo albums are expensive to produce and distribute
• Not fully Data Protection compliant
• Up-to-the-minute information sharing • Encourages maximum participation
• Secure, 24/7 access from anywhere • Enables Retail & Night-time use in one
• Every user has a full action log • Fully Data Protection compliant
5. SIRCS is Effective
Information supplied by the Great Yarmouth SIRCS Partnership 2009/10
August 2008 - January 2010
Arrests
50%
Detections
0
-50%
Retail
Crime
Xmas 09
ASB
-100%
6. Login page
https://www.fenbac.sircs.org/login
Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy Subject Access Request
Empowering Communities, Unit 28, Riverside Business Centre, Riverside Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 0TQ
Tel: 01502 576888 | Fax: 01502 531988 | email: info@empowering-communities.org
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7. Home Page - Dashboard
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9. View a Profile
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John Smith Profile ID:27
Name: John SMITH Police Area: Cambridge Constabulary
Gender: Male
Alias: Jacko
DOB: 07-02-1985 (27 Years)
Warning Markers: VIOLENT, VERBAL ABUSE
Report Title: Staff Member Assaulted [view this report]
Incident Date: Tuesday 14-02-2012
Author: Andy Elmore Premises: The White Horse
Exclusion Served?: Yes
Report Text: At 23:50 on Tuesday 14 Feb 2012 two males…
Report Title: Assaulted another Customer [view this report]
Incident Date: Friday 06-12-2011
10. Incident Report
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Staff Member Assaulted Report ID:13
Name: John SMITH
Incident Time: 23:50
DOB: 07-02-1985 (27 years)
Incident Date: Tuesday 14-02-2012
NO
INCIDENT Report Type: Assault
IMAGE
Exclusion Served?: Yes
Report Text:
At 23:50 on Tuesday 14 Feb 2012 two males, one black and one white who were at the bar were involved in a heated argument. When it looked
to be turning ugly, a member of the bar staff intervened and attempted to cool the situation down. The white male shouted at the bar man
‘What’s it got to do with you’ and then head butted the staff member in the face giving him a bloody nose.
Both males then headed quickly to the exit but were detained by door staff and the Police were called. Both men and staff members were
questioned and the white male was arrested. The arrested male was identified as John SMITH.
SMITH was served a Red Exclusion Card before being taken away by the police
11. Incident Report Mapping
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Staff Member Assaulted Report ID:13
Name: John SMITH
Premises:
The White Horse PH
DOB: 07-02-1985 (27 years)
Address:
19 The Street
Guyhirn
Cambridgeshire
CG12 4SD
Police Area:
Cambridgeshire Constabulary
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Empowering Communities is a trading name of N.S.E.P C.I.C | Company Number: 6265613 | Registered VAT Number: 915979474
13. Search Profiles
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Search Scheme Profiles
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Craig RICHARDS Unknown MALE 14 John SMITH Julie WILLIAMSON Chloe BROWN
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John Smith Profile ID:27
Name: John SMITH Police Area: Cambridge Constabulary
Gender: Male
Alias: Jacko
DOB: 07-02-1985 (27 Years)
Warning Markers: VIOLENT, VERBAL ABUSE
Report Title: Staff Member Assaulted [view this report]
Incident Date: Tuesday 14-02-2012
Author: Andy Elmore Premises: The White Horse
Exclusion Served?: Yes
Report Text: At 23:50 on Tuesday 14 Feb 2012 two males…
Report Title: Assaulted another Customer [view this report]
Incident Date: Friday 06-12-2011
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Empowering Communities, Unit 28, Riverside Business Centre, Riverside Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 0TQ
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Empowering Communities is a trading name of N.S.E.P C.I.C | Company Number: 6265613 | Registered VAT Number: 915979474
17. Search Reports
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Reports
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Staff Member Assaulted 14-02-2012 23:54 The White Horse Andy Elmore
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Empowering Communities, Unit 28, Riverside Business Centre, Riverside Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 0TQ
Tel: 01502 576888 | Fax: 01502 531988 | email: info@empowering-communities.org
Empowering Communities is a trading name of N.S.E.P C.I.C | Company Number: 6265613 | Registered VAT Number: 915979474
20. Exclusion Scheme
Premises Posters and Red Exclusion Cards - Available to Download
‘Red Card’ Exclusion Notice (A6)
Must be issued to an offender in
order that a ban can commence
Therefore all Management, Security
and Door staff should carry at least
one at all times
Members Poster (A4) Gives web link to List of Premises Banning Criteria Poster (A4)
Must be displayed in every Member Premises Gives Appeals Advice Should be displayed in every Member Premises
21. SIRCS is Quick & Simple to use
• SIRCS is designed to be simple to use
• It has an E-CINS inspired user interface
• SIRCS is much easier to use than Facebook or Ebay
• It takes less than 5 minutes to enter a report on SIRCS
22. Viewing Information - Easy as 1,2,3…
1. Go to www.fenbac.sircs.org & enter you Username & Password
2. Click the ‘Scheme Gallery’ icon
3. Click on a profile image to see all information about that person
4. Click on any ‘Incident Title’ to read about that incident
23. Incident Reporting in less than 5 minutes
1. Go to www.fenbac.sircs.org & enter your Username & Password
2. Click the ‘Reports’ icon then ‘Report an Incident’
3. Complete the form with a brief, factual account of what happened
and link it to the offender
4. Click ‘Submit’
24. The Benefits of using SIRCS
• Simple to use
• 24/7 access via the internet and mobile devices
• Up-to-the-minute information sharing
• Effective ‘Banned from one banned from all’ Exclusion Scheme
• Enables retail and pubwatch schemes to use one system
• Fully Data Protection compliant
Hello My Name is Graham Mansbridge. \n\nI work for Empowering Communities - a not-for profit Social Enterprise that develops software solutions.\n\nWe produce on-line or Cloud based systems including not only SIRCS but also ECINS (which some of the Police officers here today may be using and NEMISys - the National Electronic Metal-theft Information System)\n\nToday I am here to talk to you about SIRCS\n
Well what is SIRCS?\n\n(read the points one by one)\n\nSIRCS has been in use for 6 years and is used by local retail and pubwatch partnerships on towns and cities across England and Scotland. It is also used in ‘specialist’ National Crime reduction Partnerships\n
SIRCS is accessed by staff at all these well known National Companies up and down the UK\nIt is also used for National schemes like the UK Gaming industry’s Scheme MachineGuard UK which helps record and detect and prevent crime associated with Fruit Machines \n
Traditionally a Typical Retail or Pubwatch partnership would involve the volunteers from the scheme and usually a police officer arranging meetings (for those members keen enough to attend in their own time) every couple of months or so where information would be shared in the form of offender albums. Because of the time between meeting these albums could be weeks or even months out of date by the time they are actually handed out.\n\nTo get round this ‘Information lag’ some schemes will email reports and offender images \n\nREAD OUT 1ST SECTION and explain the images why they are both bad ways of doing things\n\n\n\nNationally a police officer will spend on average between 10 and 12 working days per year just administering a ‘traditional’ hard copy album scheme and that doesn't include print costs. \n \nIndeed one ‘traditional’ scheme estimated that they were spending £1000 per year on ink alone, just to produce their retail albums.\n\nA Police Officer from one constabulary reported that when he was managing photo albums for just 2 towns, it was taking up 10% of his total working year. \n\nAnother PCSO who was given the responsibility of running the 'traditional' scheme in a single town calculated they were spending 6 working weeks per year managing it.\n \nIt is also worth remembering that the information sharing agreement and Data Protection breaches in one town were so bad that the Superintendent had to be informed and the albums that could be found were withdrawn immediately. Some were never recovered. \n\nSIRCS enables sensitive personal information to be securely uploaded in an encrypted environment and then authorised users are invited to view that information either directly or from intelligence bulletins that can be produced from within SIRCS.\n\n
At the British Retail Consortium national conference, Great Yarmouth Town Centre Manager, Jonathan Newman said that at Christmas 2009 since using SIRCS they had seen ASB in the town centre drop by 75% and retail crime drop by 49%. Not only that, but detections and arrests had gone up, which if you think about it logically should have dropped. He put this down to the improved information sharing that SIRCS generates. \n
When you are first signed up to the system you will get a ‘Welcome’ email\n\nIn that email you will be issued Username and Password plus a login page address (URL) as a link. All you then have to do is click the link and enter Username and Password. \n\nYou can save the login page address to your ‘favourites’ (PC) or ‘Bookmarks’ (Mac) so that you can get to your login page in future with just one click\n\nEvery user has their own login which means that everything that user views, adds or prints is recorded on their Action Log.\n\nThis has 2 benefits:\nit makes every user accountable for what they do regarding the sensitive information on the system which is one of the reasons the ICO like SIRCS and what helps to make it fully Data Protection compliant.\n\nThe other reason is also it enables the administrators of the system to see which of their members is actually logging in and viewing the information that is put on the system\n
Once you have logged in you will be taken to this page - This is what we call the Dashboard or Home Page and this is where is can access all the main functions of the site.\n\nAny of you with Smart Phones will notice that is laid out very similar to the iPhone or Android app page and that the icons are designed to make it intuitive.\n\nYou will also notice the Home button at the top. This appears on every page and enables you to get back to this page with 1 click.\n\nSo so far its nice and simple and straight-forward.\n\nThe recommended next move (what most people do is to click the yellow ‘scheme Gallery’ button\n
This page shows all suspects and offenders in your scheme that you have permission to view. \n\nie if you are a shop manager you will only see profiles that have related retail incidents (eg shop theft).\n\nYou will notice there are 3 bands in shades of red. These band contain the profiles in order of when they were last active and profiles move up and down these bands automatically.\n\nie. the dark red band shows all new offenders or reoffenders with the last 30 days. The Dark Pink showing 31-90 days and the pink are those profiles who have been inactive for over 90 days.\n\nThere will usually be more than just 5 offenders per band in which case these 5 faces change to another 5 faces after a few seconds and so on.\n\nIf you only want to see the most active you just click the white triangle and the page will show just ALL the profiles active in the last 30 days.\n\nAs you can see there are ‘Rubber stamps’ in Red and White over some image and these relate to the ‘Banned from one banned from all’ exclusion scheme that I will explain later.\n\nFrom this page it a simple matter of clicking on a face to see what they have done.\n\nSo if we click on John Smith in the centre here…\n
It brings up john smiths Profile.\n\nHere you can see all information held on Mr Smith and all the reports he is related to (beneath his image) so if we click on the top report ‘Staff member assaulted’…\n
That brings up the details of what happened.\n\nYou can can record lots of information here but there is actually very little that is actually mandatory - just time, date,, report type, report title and report text (what happened) plus whether an exclusion card was served\n
The system automatically geolocates the incident at the members premises so nothing to do there either but if the incident did take place elsewhere and address can be entered and the system will automatically place an incident marker on the map at that location. \n\nThis is particularly usefull for security staff who may work at multiple sites.\n\nNow if we clicj the home icon at the top of the page we can go back to the dashboard to show you some more functionality\n
Once you have logged in you will be taken to this page - This is what we call the Dashboard or Home Page and this is where is can access all the main functions of the site.\n\nAny of you with Smart Phones will notice that is laid out very similar to the iPhone or Android app page and that the icons are designed to make it intuitive.\n\nYou will also notice the Home button at the top. This appears on every page and enables you to get back to this page with 1 click.\n\nSo so far its nice and simple and straight-forward.\n\nThe recommended next move (what most people do is to click the yellow ‘scheme Gallery’ button\n
The system may contain offender profiles where there is no image or a profile where there is an image but no name. Therefore if you have an incident at you premises committed by someone that you can’t identify you can search the system by name or description and if you find them and attach that profile to yout report. \n\nFor example:\n If someone stole and iPod from your shop (or assaulted a member of staff at your pub) and you could see that on CCTV it was a male between 16 and 25 with very short dark hair, by selecting this combination from the drop downs above the images it will enable you to see the limited number of profiles that fit that description and make it much quicker and easier for you to link the correct person you your report and help the police to make an arrest \n
There we have our friend John Smith and if we click on his image…\n
It brings up john smiths Profile.\n\nHere you can see all information held on Mr Smith and all the reports he is related to (beneath his image) so if we click on the top report ‘Staff member assaulted’…\n
Once you have logged in you will be taken to this page - This is what we call the Dashboard or Home Page and this is where is can access all the main functions of the site.\n\nAny of you with Smart Phones will notice that is laid out very similar to the iPhone or Android app page and that the icons are designed to make it intuitive.\n\nYou will also notice the Home button at the top. This appears on every page and enables you to get back to this page with 1 click.\n\nSo so far its nice and simple and straight-forward.\n\nThe recommended next move (what most people do is to click the yellow ‘scheme Gallery’ button\n
brings up a list of reports that you can search using a powerful ‘Key Word’ search.\n\nNow back to the Dashboard and a quick word about exclusion schemes…\n\n\n
Once you have logged in you will be taken to this page - This is what we call the Dashboard or Home Page and this is where is can access all the main functions of the site.\n\nAny of you with Smart Phones will notice that is laid out very similar to the iPhone or Android app page and that the icons are designed to make it intuitive.\n\nYou will also notice the Home button at the top. This appears on every page and enables you to get back to this page with 1 click.\n\nSo so far its nice and simple and straight-forward.\n\nThe recommended next move (what most people do is to click the yellow ‘scheme Gallery’ button\n
Every time a member adds a report related to a profile, the user has to state whether the offender is excluded as a result.\n\nThere is a clearly defined list of banning criteria and if a person breaches any one of these, they should be excluded. The exclusion is for 6 months and applies to all members premises in either day time or night times sector \n\n(ie. a person caught shop lifting will be banned from members retail premises but not be banned from all pubs and clubs) \n\nBanning is done by means of issuing a red card to the offender at the time of the incident and results in the profile being show in the exclusion gallery with a red ‘EXCLUDED’ stamp.\n\nWhere an offender cannot be issued with a red card (eg they were too violent or escaped) they will still appear in the Exclusion Gallery as there is an option to select ‘Red Card to be Served’ on the incident report. In this case they appear with a White ‘SERVE A RED CARD’ stamp over their image.\n\nThis informs members that this person should not be allowed to enter any members premises but instead served with a red card. Once this is done a report must be submitted so that their status is upgraded to ‘Excluded’ \n\nThe ban will only expire 6 months after the card is issued (so there is limited benefit in avoiding being issued)\n\nIf a banned person enters or attempts to enter a member’s premises another card should be issued, report submitted and the 6 moth ban starts again\n
This shows the essential material that you will need to display. It is available from the download section once logged in\n\nRed cards should be carried by all management and door staff so they can be issued at short notice\n
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This page shows all suspects and offenders in your scheme that you have permission to view. \n\nie if you are a shop manager you will only see profiles that have related retail incidents (eg shop theft).\n\nYou will notice there are 3 bands in shades of red. These band contain the profiles in order of when they were last active and profiles move up and down these bands automatically.\n\nie. the dark red band shows all new offenders or reoffenders with the last 30 days. The Dark Pink showing 31-90 days and the pink are those profiles who have been inactive for over 90 days.\n\nThere will usually be more than just 5 offenders per band in which case these 5 faces change to another 5 faces after a few seconds and so on.\n\nIf you only want to see the most active you just click the white triangle and the page will show just ALL the profiles active in the last 30 days.\n\nAs you can see there are ‘Rubber stamps’ in Red and White over some image and these relate to the ‘Banned from one banned from all’ exclusion scheme that I will explain later.\n\nFrom this page it a simple matter of clicking on a face to see what they have done.\n\nSo if we click on John Smith in the centre here…\n