Safer Business Week 2026

Safer Business Week 2026

Good Afternoon, 

Dyfed-Powys Police will be taking part in the national Safer Business Action Week to help tackle business and retail crime across local communities.

As part of the initiative, police and partners will be running Safer Business Action Days throughout the week, visiting local retailers and other businesses to gain a better understanding of the challenges they face on a daily basis.

For the first time, four national campaigns are joining together for SaBA Week, with the NBCC, Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), Usdaw and Retail Trust working together to strengthen efforts to protect retail workers from violence, abuse and intimidation.

The aim is to deliver a focused operation involving joint patrols, targeted action against prolific offenders and a range of crime prevention activities, supported by the National Business Crime Centre, which coordinates SaBA Week.

Today your local PCSO’s 8117 & 8134 have visited all the businesses’ On Merlins Walk Shopping Centre. This gave us an opportunity to talk with staff and understand any issues they have been facing, provide reassurance and crime prevention advice. 

We will continue to visit other stores in Carmarthen throughout this week in order to understand trends and identify patterns around shoplifting and be able to tailor our approach to identifying and dealing with offenders in the area.