🏪 Supporting Hounslow Businesses: Tackling Shoplifting & ASB Together

Following our updates this week on ASB, knife crime and community safety

This week, we’ve spoken about ASB, knife crime, prevention, and supporting young people.

We also want to speak directly to our local businesses — who are a vital part of Hounslow’s community and economy.

💼 We Understand the Impact on Businesses

Shoplifting and ASB can:

We recognise these concerns — and you are not facing this alone.

📊 The Reality

As with violence, it is important to keep this in perspective:

👮‍♂️ What We Are Doing

Your Neighbourhood Policing Teams are:

We are focused on long‑term problem solving — not just short‑term responses.

🧾 How Businesses Can Help

Working together is key. You can:

Your reporting helps us: 👉 Identify patterns
👉 Link offences and offenders
👉 Take stronger action

📞 Reporting Options

No piece of information is too small — it may be part of a bigger picture.

🤝 A Partnership Approach

We are committed to:

But enforcement alone is not enough.

We will continue to:

💙 Reassurance

Hounslow remains a vibrant, busy and resilient borough.

The behaviour of a small number of individuals does not define our businesses or our communities.

Together — through reporting, partnership and positive engagement — we will: 👉 Protect businesses
👉 Support staff
👉 Reduce ASB and shoplifting
👉 Keep Hounslow open, safe and thriving

Thank you to all our businesses for the role you play and the support you continue to give.