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In addition, to strengthen security in
high-risk premises, the Police Crime Prevention Bureau is always ready to give owners and occupiers advice on how it might be improved. Crime prevention officers visit the premises and advise on improvements. And they visit the premises again later to see whether or not their advice is being followed.
Speaking more generally, the Fight Crime Committee has a Working Group on Security of Goldsmith and Jewellery Shops whose job it is to determine how security in high-risk premises can be improved. Assisted by the Police Crime Prevention Bureau, the Working Group meets representatives of trade
associations to advise on up-to-date and effective security measures. It has also held seminars, published advisory booklets and visited jewellers and goldsmiths to give on-the-spot advice.
These efforts seem to be having some effect. Security measures installed on the recommendation of the Crime Prevention Bureau foiled five robberies in 1985
and four in the first nine months of 1986. Robberies in jewellery shops and similar premises declined from from 92 in 1983 to 54 in 1986. Up to the end of March this year there have been 11.