Does the £12.6 billion cost of crime against business mean the Home Office doesn care?
A new report has today been released by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) which highlights the £12.6 billion annual cost of crimes against business. This figure has increased by 20 per cent since the BCC’s last survey on business crime in 2004, and it now equates to over a sixth of the total cost of all crime in the UK.* The BCC’s Director General, David Frost, and other Chamber of Commerce Chief Executives have jointly written to the Home Secretary calling on the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) to make cutting crimes against business one of their Key Performance Indicators. At present there is no indicator for the police to record business crime. The worrying lack of confidence that the business community has in the police is the major reason why the British Chambers of Commerce is campaigning for the Home Secretary to make reducing business crime a Key Performance Indicator for police authorities across the country. 85 per cent of respondents to the report’s survey b
