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Association of Business Crime Partnerships Annual Conference, 2012

The ABCP national business crime conference which is taking place at the Coventry Hilton hotel on Thursday, 24th May is the premier networking and information event for BCRPs where they can join colleagues to hear speakers and find out what is new and important for business crime.

ABCP has secured a number of key speakers including the recently appointed Home Office crime reduction minister, Lord Henley as well as the new ACPO lead on business crime, ACC Paul Broadbent of Nottinghamshire Police who will both launch the new ACPO and Home Office strategy for business crime. Allyn Thomas, the new chairman of ABCP will open the conference and give the welcome address.

There will be presentations by member business crime reduction partnerships, retailers, updates on the work and future national projects that ABCP is working on as well as workshops and the Partnership Excellence Awards (PEX) which showcase the work of partnerships in the categories of Promoting Community Safety, Partnership Innovation and Managing the Evening Economy.

Entry forms for the PEX awards can be downloaded here.

The full conference programme can be downloaded here.

Early Bird and group discounts are available to all delegates. To book your place at the conference click here

CONFERENCE SPONSOR

ABCP gratefully acknowledges the support of Ladbrokes PLC for the conference.

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