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About us

Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRPs) perform a valuable function as part of local community efforts to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour which effects businesses, their staff, customers and the community. Their work is now recognised by police, community safety and CDRPs as providing a valuable source of information and demonstrating practical steps to identify offenders and anti-social elements and to work together to manage their behaviour more effectively.

AABC was formed over five years ago with help from the Home Office to provide a national supporting organisation for business crime reduction partnerships, to support and develop local BCRPs and ensure that there are firm links between business, CDRPs, police and other relevant local and regional agencies.

To achieve this AABC encourages sharing of best practice in reducing crime, provides advice and information to ensure partnerships are sustainable and financially sound, develops services and products for partnerships and ensures that the problems of business are better understood through campaigning, publicity and education. 

AABC has developed the Safer Business Award, which is designed to help BCRPs operate to a high standard and in a manner which has been agreed with the Information Commissioner' office.  This ensures that partnerships operate legally and in accordance with the Data Protection Act and data protection principles. AABC has also developed the Safer Socialising Award to provide partnerships with a system for rewarding licensed premises who can demonstrate good standards of management. 

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of Action Against Business Crime is to reduce acquisitive and violent crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour against businesses, their premises, staff and customers. Acquisitive crime means theft, burglary, car crime and robbery. Violence means assault, threats, intimidation and abuse. Disorder and anti-social behaviour means, drunkenness, abusive and threatening behaviour, obscene language and criminal damage.

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Latest news

4 March 2010
Guidance and advice on databases and handling of personal and sensitive data
With the emergence of new databases with the ability to disseminate personal and sensitive data, AABC has sought advice and guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office to ensure that BCRPs are able to make reasoned and informed decisions concerning the purchase, operation and management of databases, including access by third party users. As new systems, which may not have sought the benefit of guidance from the ICO, present themselves to BCRPs as solutions to data sharing, it is important that they ascertain their suitability before committing themselves financially or facing difficulties of data compliance in the future. More...
4 March 2010
Fraud reporting line goes live
The National Fraud Authority fraud reporting system, called Action Fraud, is now operational and members of the public and businesses can report all types of frauds direct. More...
3 March 2010
A new partnership joins AABC
We are pleased to announce that a new partnership in Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, has joined AABC. More...
27 February 2010
Safer Socialising Award re-launched
AABC has re-launched the Safer Socialising Award in a simplified and more user-friendly format. The same principles about responsible alcohol retailing have been retained, but the categories of licensed premises have been simplified and the requirements codified to make it easier for licensees to apply for the award and simpler for BCRPs to assess and manage. Assessment has been revised upowards to every two years from annually. More...
27 February 2010
Sending personal or sensitive data
The ICO has expressed the view that BCRPs who send personal or sensitive data via email should do so in a secure manner where this is possible. If there is a need to send personal or sensitive data via email, partnerships should consider using the Criminal Justice Secure Email service. More...
20 February 2010
Business Crime Reduction Partnership to address Sussex magistrates
The Brighton & Hove Business Crime Reduction Partnership [BCRP] has been asked by the Sussex Central Bench to give a series of 5 presentations on its work over five days in March to ensure that magistrates understand and support its work with the business community in collaboration with Sussex Police and Brighton & Hove City Council. More...
20 February 2010
Home Secretary announces final conditions of a proposed mandatory code for alcohol retailers
The conditions will be applied to all alcohol retailers to ensure consistent good practice and to crack down on problem premises, where irresponsible drinking could put individuals at risk and lead to crime and anti-social behaviour. More...
13 February 2010
ICO advice on partnership databases
Following concerns expressed to AABC by a number of partnership managers about the national SIRCS database and the manner in which personal or sensitive data is made available to users, AABC sought guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office, who has responded as follows: More...