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Business Crime
Sally Bourner
Chief Superintendent.
@SolPolCommander
#pccbusiness
Supporting stronger
communities
• Retail Crime
• Metal Theft
• Cash in Transit and Commercial Robbery
• Bilking (Theft of petrol)
• Fraud
• Cyber Crime
Business Crime
Business Crime
Retail Theft (Supt Keith Fraser)
1. Changes to processes
2. Operation Simul – longer term
solutions through sustainable
partnership working to reduce harm
caused by retail crime
3. Established internal arrangements
to continually review and develop a
consistent approach
4. Communication and engagement
The cost of Retail Theft
Metal Theft (Ch Insp Danny Delaney)
Metal Theft
1. Legislative changes (licensing and no
cash for scrap) – Scrap Metal Dealers Act
2013
2. Partnership working
3. Action days
Business Robbery (Det Supt John Denley)
1. Numerous arrests to date and ongoing investigation into pattern
of business robberies occurring on Western side of WMP
2. Cash in Transit well established ‘Follow that Van’ and partnership
work with industry
3. ATM security and ‘Banknote Watch’ event Monday 17th May
Making off without payment
(Ch Insp Andy Beard)
1. Operation Kadence
a) Tamper-proof number plates
b) Forecourt Partnerships
2. Decommissioned Police vehicles
on garage forecourts
3. Implementation of WMP fuel
cards.
Business Burglary (Local Policing)
Fraud (Det Ch Insp Adrian Atherley)
Fraud Crime is growing in it’s complexity, diversifying in it’s
nature and spreading it’s reach across the UK and globally
• Forms part of National Serious and Organised Crime Strategy and
part of Strategic Policing Requirement
• Launch of Regional Fraud Team in December 2013
• West Midlands Police Economic Crime Unit
• www.midlandsfraudforum.co.uk
• www.fraudadvisorypanel.org
• ‘Keeping Your Business in Business’
• Action Fraud – www.actionfraud.police.uk
Action Fraud
Cyber Crime (Ch Supt Steve Graham)
• National Crime Agency – www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk
• Raising awareness of Cyber threats
• Educating frontline officers in the investigative opportunities
around Cyber Crime
• Publicising good practice around making you and your
business safer, such as Get Safe Online
Cyber Crime (Ch Supt Steve Graham)
WMP Crime Reduction Team
(Det Sgt Andy Gregory)
• Facewatch
• WMP Crime Reduction House
• ‘Keeping Your Business in Business’ Handbook
• Partnership work with directors of planning and planning
departments across the seven West Midlands Local Authorities
Useful Info
www.businesscrimeforum.co.uk
www.retailresearch.org
www.west-midlands.police.uk
www.midlandsfraudforum.co.uk
www.fraudadvisorypanel.org
www.actionfraud.police.uk
www.facewatch.co.uk