Chester Against Business Crime (CABC) has gained the Safer Business Accreditation, with distinction, from the National Association of Business Crime Partnerships (NABCP). With more than 250 members, CABC is a self-funding pro-active partnership of the city’s businesses, Cheshire West and Chester council, and Cheshire Police.
The NABCP reviewed how CABC works with its retail, business and other partners, measuring effectiveness in helping the police, and checked data protection compliance, file management and operating procedures.
CABC provides services for businesses in Chester including a 24 hour digital radio network where businesses are in contact with the council CCTV control and neighbourhood police team, who all carry a city link radio. The partnership operates an exclusion scheme for persistent offenders, access to a secure intranet which provides members with police and private sector photographs of active offenders, weekly intelligence meetings and photo updates, shared intelligence with nearby towns and cities, and training.
The long-time CABC crime manager Bob Lelliott said: “We now manage a large partnership operating in a number of towns in West Cheshire. This enables us to share knowledge of offenders more widely and deliver a better service to our members. With the additional benefit of our North West regional partnership organisation, we can also spread these benefits even more widely when dealing with professional, travelling offenders.”
Picture by Mark Rowe: Chester city centre.
