National Business Crime Solution (NBCS), the not for profit crime data sharing body, reports securing significant UK Government funding. The six-figure sum will enable it to become self-sustaining, make new appointments, and run a marketing and awareness campaign, including a new independent corporate identity.
As a central point where business crime data is submitted, shared and analysed, NBCS can gather the necessary intelligence to more effectively detect, prevent and respond to crime. The money is from the Police Transformation Fund of the Home Office.
The NBCS was founded by Jason Trigg while he was the owner of Cardinal Security, which recently had a management buy-in. Over the last three years, the NBCS reports, it has grown membership to nearly 50, and acts as a link between police forces and its members by connecting crimes that would have traditionally been viewed as independent – notably by mobile teams of criminals who are known to have very specific targets and travel across the UK. Prior to the NBCS collating these crimes, it says, these offences would have gone unnoticed and unpunished.
NBCS also works with a number of police departments including the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) lead for Business Crime and the National Business Crime Centre. Their operational lead, Met DCI Georgie Barnard, said: ‘This is a unique service from a trusted partner that truly offers the way forward for the industry and police to work together to achieve a common goal. NBCS offers timely information on crime trends to enable businesses in all market sectors to take better preventative action and enable more effective engagement with the police.’
NBCS points to the positive identification of 419 suspects and the arrest of 309 offenders over the last three years, as well as help in securing sentences of over 200 years for those having the most harm and impact on members. The NBCS was also named Retail Fraud Award Winner 2014 and in 2016 received the Best Collaborative Solution and Best Crime Partnership accolade.
Catherine Bowen, policy and stakeholder director at NBCS, pictured, said: ‘We have proven that by working in collaboration we can build a national profile of business crime and actively support the police service by building watertight cases that result in real action. The partnership between NBCS and the police service has gone from strength to strength and the money we have received from the Police Transformation Fund rubber stamps our credentials and can be seen as an endorsement of the work we do in better protecting businesses. I’m looking forward to providing an even better level of service to our existing members and welcoming new companies on board.’
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