Sally Bourner

Chief Superintendent.

@SolPolCommander

#pccbusiness

Business Crime

Supporting stronger communities

• Retail Crime• Metal Theft• Cash in Transit and Commercial Robbery• Bilking (Theft of petrol)• Fraud• Cyber Crime

Business Crime

Business Crime

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

Retail Theft (Supt Keith Fraser)

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

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

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