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Membership of ABCP is open to all business crime reduction partnerships which have achieved the Safer Business Award or are actively working towards it. The Safer Business Award is the nationally recognised standard for BCRPs which shows that they are operating lawfully, in accordance with the Data Protection Act and with other good practice developed by ABCP which have been designed to promote effective partnership work.

ABCP provides a national focus for business crime reduction partnerships.  This helps to give the work of BCRPs a higher profile through areas such as: 

  • Working with businesses and stakeholders, including police and local authorities to support the development of BRCPs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The ABCP partnership model is robust, tested and accepted by police forces as best practice for information-sharing with BCRPs as trusted partners
  • Accreditation of the Safer Business Award to ensure your partnership is operating lawfully, effectively and to the standards set out in the ABCP Partnership Codes of Practice and supported by ACPO
  • Creating and support regional and county BCRP groups encouraging a more strategic approach by police to business crime
  • Providing professional advice to partnership crime managers on all issues relating to partnership management
  • Organising the ABCP annual conference and partnership excellence awards
  • Providing partnerships with the ABCP weekly newsletter and updates plus Crime Reduction Partnership News with a circulation of 15,000 to those involved in crime prevention and reduction
  • Representing BCRPs at a national level including the National Retail Crime Steering Group at the Home Office, the National Business Crime Forum and the All-Party Parliamentary Retail & Business Crime Group
  • Working with the ACPO lead on business crime to promote business crime reduction as strategic force policy and working with police forces to help them develop their business crime strategy
  • Providing a professional qualification for partnership managers with the University of Central Lancashire as well as other courses and training opportunities
  • Developing the Retail Mentors Scheme to promote closer and more effective working relationships between partnerships and national retailers

Members of ABCP are entitled to a number of membership benefits provided by ABCP including:

  • Assistance to member partnerships to achieve the Safer Business Award, including documentation and help from one of our managers
  • Help with the Safer Business Award re-accreditation process
  • Access to all the information on the members' only pages of the ABCP website. These provide legal and data protection guidance, partnership good practice, relevant Home Office and other publications
  • Low cost professional indemnity and other insurance
  • Discounted places at the ABCP annual conference
  • High quality SBA plaque to promote your Safer Business Award
  • Access to the Safer Socialising Award
  • Access to associate member services
  • Free advice, information and help with any problems you may encounter on any partnership problem or matter of concern – particularly data protection or other legal matters.

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Latest news

2 February 2012
Preparing your business for the games
For those parts of the country which will be hosting Olympic events (not just London), the National Olympic Co-ordination Centre has produced a comprehensive booklet setting out advice for businesses on the opportunites, challenges and possible impacts of the games on business. More...
2 February 2012
Consultation on dealing with the problems of late night drinking
This consultation is about two measures in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 that will be implemented through regulations: Early Morning Restriction Orders (EMROs) and the late night levy. More...
1 February 2012
Sentencing Council launches new guideline for assault offences
The guideline aims to ensure a consistent and proportionate approach to sentencing, with convicted offenders receiving a sentence that reflects both the harm they have caused to their victim and their culpability. The guideline sets out that it is an aggravating factor to an assault where it is an 'offence committed against those working in the public sector or providing a service to the public'. The broad wording would encompass both those providing vital services to the public, such as emergency services personnel, but also those working, for example, as pub staff and shop workers. More...
28 January 2012
ABCP national conference booking page now open
The ABCP annual national conference will be taking place at the Hilton Hotel, Coventry on Thursday, 24th May, 2012. This is an excellent central venue, close to junction 2 of the M6 and M69 and with ample free parking for delegates. This is the only national event where partnerships, police, retailers and other colleagues can meet, network and find out what about developments in partnership operation and how the future will look. More...
27 January 2012
Northampton Retail Crime Initiative joins ABCP
We are delighted that Northampton Retail Crime Initiative (NRCI) has decided to join ABCP. As one of the longest established business crime partnerships, NRCI has served as a model for other partnerships starting up and with over 150 members, is a key partner with police and other agencies in the county. More...
27 January 2012
Home Office Minister visits Chester Partnership
The Home Office Minister for crime reduction, Lord Henley, paid the first ever ministerial visit to a partnership when he spent the day in Chester on Friday, 20th January. He spent the day listening to what the partnership does and how it works and speaking to the crime manager, businesses, police and local authority members, who all voiced their support for the good work carried out by the partnership. More...
23 January 2012
West Midlands Police business fraud & crime reduction seminar
West Midlands Police are holding a fraud and crime reduction seminar in the Trophy Suite,West Midlands Police Sports and Conference Centre, Tally Ho, Pershore Road, Birmingham, B5 7RN on Wednesday, 15th February from 9am to 1pm. It is free to all participants who register for the event and refreshments will be provided. More...
21 January 2012
British Retail Consortium retail crime survey reports a reduction in shop theft.
The British Retail Consortium's (BRC's) Retail Crime Survey 2011, published last Monday shows fewer incidents for many types of crime but each incident on average has been more costly and total losses have increased sharply compared with the previous year. Expenditure on crime prevention by retailers taking part in the survey rose by 1.4 per cent to £214 million, a median spend of £700,000 per company. This has substantially reduced incidents of opportunistic crime, but combating the rise in violent crime retailers and their staff are exposed to requires the support of law makers and enforcers. More...