The 2012 Association of Business Crime Partnerships (ABCP) annual national conference runs at the Hilton Hotel, Coventry on Thursday, May 24.
This is close to junction 2 of the M6 and M69 and with free parking for delegates. Organisers say 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.
This year the recently appointed Home Office minister, Lord Henley, will attend and speak and the new ACPO business crime lead, ACC Paul Broadbent will set out the new ACPO strategy for business crime, which ABCP and partnerships will have an important role in helping to deliver. Also speaking will be the new chairman of ABCP, Allyn Thomas, a former ACC in Kent Police and previous ACPO business crime lead.
According to the association, there are significant changes in how public authorities will deliver services in times of economic difficulty and the increasingly important role of partnerships is being recognised as one means which can assist hard pressed colleagues.
This is also the opportunity for partnerships to show what they have achieved in the last 12 months by entering one or more categories of the Partnership Excellence (PEX) Awards, which are once more supported by Todd & Cue.
