Businesses can be affected by crime in many different ways. Business crime can include internal crimes such as customer and employee theft, fraud, e crime and false accounting, and other crime including attacks on staff, burglary, customer theft and criminal damage, as well as contraventions of legislation.

Take the ‘How Safe is your Business?’ questionnaire to assess how protected your business is.When you have completed the questionnaire you will be informed of the weaknesses in your security and crime prevention arrangements. This information can be used to introduce the measures needed to reduce the risks your business may be exposed to. To take the self assessment visit, www.homeoffice.gov.uk/secureyourbusiness.  

A National Retail Crime Steering Group has been formed with representatives from both large chains and sm aller retail associations, the Government alongside other businesses, trade unions and trade assoc iations to find effective solutions and responses to the issue of crime against businesses. A Retail Crime Action Plan has been published to help identify the type of crimes that small businesses face and what efforts have been taken to address them, this can be viewed at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/retail-crime-action-plan.