Useful Links...
  The Home Office Crime Reduction Website carries a complete guide to preventing you, your property and your business from becoming a victim of crime. It includes a set of 'toolkits' examining all aspects of crime issues including business crime.
    Further advice on prevention of business and other crime is available in a number of papers from the Home Office. These papers include advice on how to protect people and property from terrorist bomb attacks.
    Leicestershire Constabulary Official Web site
    Secured By Design is a UK Police initiative supporting the principles of designing out crime in the built environment.
    Sold Secure is a non-profit making company dedicated to reducing the risk of theft by the assessment of security products. Sold Secure was established in 1992 by Northumbria and Essex Police with the help and backing of the Home Office. It is now administered by the Master Locksmiths’ Association.
   
The Commissioner is an independent supervisory authority and has both an international and national role in enforcing the Data Protection Act 1998. In the UK it has a range of duties including the promotion of good information handling and the encouragement of codes of practice for data controllers. It is also responsible for the Freedom of Information.
   
The British Retail Consortium represents 90% of the retail trade in Britain. Its members run a variety of outlets from one-person corner shops to hypermarkets. BRC is directly involved in issues affecting retailing and the consumer including crime, the environment, European legislation and e-commerce amongst other things.It publishes annual findings on retail crime figures.
    NACOSS is not a trade organisation, but a scheme run by the National Security Inspectorate and is responsible for the regulation of electronic security system installers.
    SSAIB is a non profit making organisation whose sole aim is to protect the users of security systems against unsafe or unsound security installations. It achieves this objective by maintaining a Roll of Installers throughout the country who are registered with the SSAIB.
   

The annual British Crime Survey details the results of interviews conducted continuously throughout the year about public exposure to crime and disorder. It is regarded as a more accurate barometer of the occurrence of crime as it includes offences which are not reported to the police. You can download a copy of the report covering 2002/3 on the right.
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