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The increasingly fuzzy boundary between public and private security

Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRPs) perform a valuable function as part of local community efforts to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour which effects businesses, their staff, customers and the community. Their work is now recognised by police, community safety and community safety partnerships as providing a valuable source of information and demonstrating practical steps to identify offenders and anti-social elements and to work together to manage their behaviour more effectively.

ABCP was formed in June 2010 as a merger between Action Against Business Crime and the business crime initiative of the Association of Town Centre Management.  It has the support of the Home Office and ACPO business crime.  Its objective is to provide a national supporting organisation for business crime reduction partnerships, to support and develop local BCRPs and ensure that there are firm links between business, community safety partnerships, police and other relevant local and regional agencies.

To achieve this ABCP encourages sharing of best practice in reducing crime, provides advice and information to ensure partnerships are sustainable and financially sound, develops services and products for partnerships and ensures that the problems of business are better understood through campaigning, publicity and education.

http://www.businesscrime.org.uk/about_us.htm

A representative of one of these ‘partnerships’, in which staff paid by local businesses are placed in local police stations, was just interviewed on R4 and asked what’s to stop businesses using such access to police stations to target ‘pesky environmentalists’. Her chilling response, hopefully attributable to stupidity and/or media nerves rather than incipient fascism, was to say “businesses are free to do what they want”.

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