Our most recent member survey confirms that safety and security are your top priority. That’s why we invest significantly in strategy, dedicated personnel and new initiatives to strengthen both the reality and perception of safety — ensuring businesses, workers, visitors and residents across the district continue to feel confident and protected.

We provide what businesses cannot achieve on their own: effective relationships with the Metropolitan Police, Safer Business Network, the Council’s Community Safety and Street Enforcement Teams and others — creating a resilient environment with a coordinated, effective response to crime and disorder, and a hostile environment for offenders.

Five years of keeping the King’s Road safe

Since businesses voted to establish the King’s Road Partnership in 2021, our Protect programme has delivered measurable results:

• 10% decrease in theft since the King’s Road Partnership launched
• 90% prosecution rate for the district’s top 100 prolific offenders
• 1,500+ incidents reported and 1,002 offenders identified on the ShopSafe Alert System
• £270k worth of stock and personal items recovered by the Street Team
• 26% increase in reporting of business crime since the launch of the Business Crime Reduction Partnership with Safer Business Network
• 70 million+ steps walked by the Street Team patrolling the King’s Road
• Secured the introduction of eight CCTV cameras for the King’s Road, monitored by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

What our members and partners say

“The King’s Road security street team have been highly professional and proactive providing a level of service that makes our business feel secure. Working closely with local police, they provide a visible daily presence on the high street, helping to deter anti-social behaviour and crime. I would like to praise them for their excellent communication, quick response when called and reliability in providing reports and bringing awareness to us and other stores if a potential situation is imminent. They are also a friendly face of safety, handling tough situations and overall brilliant to work with.” Snezana Dardova Ivanov, Store Manager, Penhaligon’s

“The Street Team provides a visible, on the ground presence and is responsive in supporting our employees, helping to create a reassuring sense of safety across the area. Through the Business Resilience Forum, King’s Road Partnership brings businesses together to share intelligence and build a collective understanding of emerging risks. The ability to collate and combine criminal intelligence in this way is invaluable, creating an environment that actively deters criminal activity.” Dominic Joyce, Store Manager, Peter Jones

“The King’s Road Partnership has been a leader in driving an effective response to business crime and are a clear example of the importance of Business Improvement Districts building strong, constructive relationships with the police. Our collaborative way of working has already yielded clear results, including a 10% reduction in theft in Knightsbridge and the King’s Road since the Partnership launched and a 90% prosecution rate for the district’s most prolific offenders.” Alexandra McDonagh, Superintendent for Kensington and Chelsea, Metropolitan Police

What we deliver today

• The Street Team — security across the district seven days a week, providing incident response, property recovery, hot-spot patrolling in locations with high levels of crime, and tactical security for significant events such as Chelsea in Bloom
• Funding of the ShopSafe Alert Crime Intelligence platform, delivered in partnership with Safer Business Network with over 1,000 offenders, plus an instant communications platform for real-time updates on incidents and disruptions
• Monthly Business Resilience Forums identifying top prolific offenders and keeping store teams informed about criminal behaviour trends and the right reporting processes
• Prolific Offender case file building, including victim impact statements
• Joint operations with the Metropolitan Police, including Safer Business Action (SaBA) Days, and delivery of security, counter-terrorism and resilience training for businesses
• Key strategic and tactical partner of the Metropolitan Police Criminal Behaviour Order Panel, MOPAC Business Crime Roundtable, London-wide Women Safety Charter Board and the Safer Kensington and Chelsea Board

What a YES vote unlocks for 2026–2031

By voting YES, we will go further:

• Make our evening Street Team pilot permanent, with double the provision during core hours, and explore additional powers, including CSAS, to manage and deter illegal on-street activity
• Double our Business Crime Reduction Unit, retaining the expertise of the current Business Crime Reduction Officer, and take a coordinated, London-wide approach with Safer Business Network to disrupt organised criminal activity
• Fund a new CCTV operator within the Council Control Room, increasing crime detection, evidence for successful prosecutions and overall surveillance
• Introduce a first-of-its-kind radio scheme for the King’s Road, connecting businesses directly with the Metropolitan Police, CCTV control room, our Street Team and neighbouring businesses for a faster response to incidents
• Strengthen the evening economy, providing hospitality businesses with specific training for the nighttime trading period and launching a Pub Watch scheme to promote safety and reduce crime and anti-social disorder

What a NO vote would mean

If the King’s Road Partnership is not successful in the ballot, all current activities and services will cease from 30th September 2026, and the district will lose £5m of investment over the five-year period. There is no other organisation to deliver these services on your behalf. That means:

• No Street Team. The service staff have come to rely on for day-to-day support will end, with the district likely to experience a rise in criminal behaviour, eroding the reductions achieved over the past five years.
• No offender tracking. The ShopSafe alert scheme — giving businesses access to information on over 800 known prolific offenders — and our monthly Business Resilience Forums will end, and levels of criminal activity could rise as prolific offenders are no longer actively monitored.

Read the full BID Proposal at www.kingsrdpartnership.com/ballot