City's safer shops prize.LIVERPOOL has scooped a top award for having one of the safest shopping centres in the country. The city has landed the safer shopping prize awarded by the Home Office. Judges were impressed that a radio network linking security guards with each other had been introduced and also praised the CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television system. Liverpool Lord Mayor, Cllr Jack Spriggs, will be presented with the award by Merseyside police Merseyside Police is the Home Office police force responsible for policing Merseyside in North West England. The force area is 647 square kilometres with a population of around 1.5 million. At present the force has 4,466 police officers plus over 2,000 police staff. chief superintendent Chief Superintendent is a senior rank in police forces organised on the British model. United Kingdom In the British police, a Chief Superintendent (Ch Supt; or colloquially "Chief Super") is senior to a Superintendent and junior to an Assistant Chief Constable (or a Mike Langdon tomorrow. Tony Jopson co-ordinates the Liverpool Crime Alert retailers' scheme and he said a safer shopping centre attracted more people. He said: ``It is vital that everyone with an interest in the city centre does their very best to make sure it is safe for shoppers and visitors.'' |
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