TownSafe enables Business Improvement Groups and Pubwatch schemes to automatically enforce existing exclusion bans across hospitality and retail venues.
Reduce repeat offender entry, improve staff safety, and support town-wide crime prevention using locally installed AI recognition technology.
Enable participating businesses to automatically identify individuals who have been banned for violence, theft, harassment or antisocial behaviour - before incidents escalate.
TownSafe does not replace existing Pubwatch, Shopwatch or BIG exclusion schemes.
Instead, it enables participating venues to automatically enforce bans already agreed by local safety partnerships.
TownSafe provides an operational enforcement layer for exclusion policies already in place within local Pubwatch and BIG partnerships.
Business Improvement Groups invest heavily in CCTV networks, town wardens, exclusion lists and radio schemes. Yet banned individuals frequently re-enter venues because:
TownSafe enables participating BIG members to:
TownSafe assists Business Improvement Districts in achieving measurable safety outcomes required for BID business plans and funding justification.
Supports BID objectives relating to:
Supports GDPR data minimisation and proportionality principles when used in conjunction with locally agreed exclusion policies.
Watchlist updates are managed by authorised Pubwatch or BIG safety partnership representatives in accordance with locally agreed exclusion policies.
Access controls ensure only authorised safety partnership staff may update shared exclusion records.
Participating venues receive discreet SMS alerts when a potential match is detected upon entry.
Human confirmation supports proportional enforcement of locally agreed exclusion policies.
An individual is banned from a participating BIG venue.
The exclusion is shared across authorised venues.
Entry camera detects and compares encrypted face encoding locally.
SMS alert sent if match exceeds confidence threshold.
TownSafe may be deployed as BID-funded safety infrastructure with no upfront cost to participating venues.
TownSafe can be delivered as a fully managed safety service including hardware, installation, software access and support.
Arrange a TownSafe demonstration for your Business Improvement Group or Pubwatch scheme.