Tesco is making “significant strides” on safety through body worn cameras, the supermarket’s project manager for shrink and security technology transformation has revealed.
Writing on LinkedIn, Oliver Tebbutt said that the technology has successfully helped the retailer become a “safer place” for both staff and customers.
The company has rolled out the technology across more than 1,200 of its convenience stores, as well as 180 larger format stores.
Tebbutt also praised the retailer’s “transformative” internally developed video management system which enables the business to store and manage its own body worn footage and share incidents with its central hub.
In February 2025, Tesco unveiled a multimillion-pound security hub in Daventry, Northamptonshire, as part of a major investment to tackle the growing problem of retail crime across its UK stores.
The high-tech centre, which operates 24 hours a day throughout the year, analyses thousands of hours of CCTV footage to target shoplifters and protect staff from violence. Through the hub, security operators have been assigned responsibility for monitoring specific groups of stores across the UK.
The project manager also said he was proud of Tesco becoming one of the first UK retailers to equip home delivery drives with body worn cameras.
“Looking back, it’s been an exceptional year for Safer Stores Programmes,” wrote Tebbutt. “Looking forward, I couldn’t be prouder of what we’ve built—and I’m even more excited for what’s to come in the new financial year as we continue to scale, innovate, and protect even more colleagues right across Tesco.”
The comments come after Tesco last month announced plans to trial a new crime reporting platform at 40 of its stores.
The Auror platform, which is already used by several retailers and UK police forces, is designed to make it easier and quicker for colleagues to report security incidents.
The technology brings together all the data and information into a single source to simplify the process for retailers and law enforcement to build, manage, track, and resolve cases faster.
The UK’s largest supermarket chain said at the time that the 10-week trial, which is being conducted across Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, aims to drive down retail crime at its stores, as well as protect colleagues and increase collaboration with the police and wider retail market.
