A MAN who was jailed after trying to steal a £100 perfume set is the first to be publicly named in a shop ban order.

Dale Rayson, 22, will join 13 other people banned from dozens of stores in Bicester by the Cherwell Crime Partnership.

He was spotted with a package stuffed under his clothes as he left Lloyds, in Sheep Street, last month.

Staff at clothing store D2, opposite, watched him leave and, thanks to a storenet radio link run by the Cherwell Crime Partnership, alerted police who arrested him.

The following day Banbury magistrates jailed Rayson, of Ravencroft, Langford Village, Bicester, for six months after he admitted a charge of shoplifting.

But when he gets out of prison he will find the number of places he can shop are limited as he will be served with an exclusion order banning him from 28 local stores.

Set up in 2009, the partnership is a joint initiative between retailers, Thames Valley Police, Cherwell District Council and Bicester Town Council to deter and prevent retail crime and antisocial behaviour within Bicester.

Co-ordinator Kym Curtis said the scheme was intelligence-based, with police and stores gathering information about persistent offenders and using a radio link — storenet — to pass on live information about troublemakers.

She said: “It was a direct result of the member of staff from D2 using their radio that Lloyds Pharmacy and the PCSOs were alerted to the crime taking place.

“This is an excellent example of how well the partnership is working within Bicester and proves that the most effective way to protect stores is communication between retailers, the partnership and police.

“We hope this will send a clear message to potential shoplifters that they are not welcome in Bicester.”

The crime partnership say it cannot name and shame people on the exclusion list because the information is confidential and only shared between member stores. But as Rayson was convicted by a court, his name is in the public domain.

Mrs Curtis confirmed people on the exclusion list were persistent offenders of petty crimes such as shoplifting or antisocial behaviour.

She said intelligence was built up on individuals from shops and police and any decision to ban people was made by a management board.

Decisions were not always based on legal convictions because in some cases shops decided not to prosecute, police had issued a fixed penalty or there was not enough evidence.

Initially people are sent a letter warning them to curb their behaviour or face a ban.

Mrs Curtis said: “We are not persecuting ordinary people.

“ The people who are on the list and are excluded, are persistent offenders.

“We have to be responsible to make sure all the information is correct.”

l Any local business interested in joining the partnership should call Mrs Curtis on 01869 364540.