Catherine Bowen, Policy & Stakeholder Director. What is the NBCS? The National Business Crime Solution (NBCS) is a ‘Not for Profit’ Initiative that provides.

Catherine Bowen, Policy & Stakeholder Director

What is the NBCS?• The National Business Crime Solution (NBCS) is a ‘Not for

Profit’ Initiative that provides a collaborative solution to more effectively tackle cross border, serious and organised crime affecting business. By providing a central repository where business crime data is submitted, shared and analysed the NBCS is able to gather the necessary intelligence and support to more effectively detect, prevent and subsequently respond to crimes affecting the UK’s business community.

Supported by

• Recognise value of a public-private sector partnership & centralised data repository

• Provides an intelligence led approach to tackling rising serious and organised crime

• Maximise opportunities to prevent and detect crime by working with: Police analyst, Policing SPOCs & GAIN network

NBCS VisionTo enable the effective sharing of appropriate data between the police and the business community which identifies criminal behaviour, reduces risk to staff and customers and leads to the arrest of offenders.

This will be achieved through the NBCS Strategic Priorities:

NBCS Strategic Priorities1. Establish central repository for provision of data sharing –

recognised as only effective solution in UK2. Identify full nature & extent of the threat to business by pooling data

from business with that from the police/public sector3. Issue timely information & alerts to enable better preventative action

& engagement with the police on cross border organised criminal networks/teams

4. Act as single point of contact between all partners to allow collation of relevant information & better inform businesses on resources to risk

5. NBCS to provide ‘Not for Profit’ scheme open to all businesses and Government enterprises

Why Now?

• Cuts to public sector funding • Change in Business and Police attitudes• Business crime on agenda • Challenge how we keep it there

Collaboration not Isolation

Delivering a collaborative approach to tackling Business Crime

Private Sector Intelligence Hub

The National Business Crime Intelligence Bureau acts as the Private Sector ‘Intelligence Hub’ of the NBCS

Providing managed service and police liaison to more effectively tackle cross border/ serious & organised crime

The BenefitsSecure & Robust Data Repository NBCIB – Private Sector Hub

One central solution Alerts

Dashboards – resource to risk Analysis

Crime mapping Monthly reports

Constellations – linked crime Collaboration business & law enforcement

Crime escalation feature & integration with NBCIB

Co-ordination across forces where linked crime identified

Evidenced based position to lobby Govt. Strategic policing priorities

Dedicated Police Liaison & a Single Point of ContactIntelligence led approach

Identifications cross border/serious & organised crime

The Benefits – Dashboards

The Benefits – Mapping

Who’s Involved?

Fraud Reporting

• Fraud Scoping established tackle online fraud• Concerns regarding Action Fraud lack of police

response• Proof of concept – value data matching • Next steps

TruckPol • Re-launched 6th March• Success reliant on data share police & industry• Letter to each Chief Constable • Engagement from 40/43 forces• TruckPol template - defining criteria & scope• Industry membership/support• Recent Case Study

The Business Case• Cut crimes costing £675,000 a month• Prevent – Alerts on emerging trends, hotspots• Pursue – Collaboration across forces & with

specialist units, FIBs, RIUs, CMPG• Prepare – Collation, analysis, monthly reports

& sharing best practice to mitigate impact• Protect – Intelligence led approach, evidence

base to lobby

Latest Report• 27 offenders arrested• Successful identification of 46 suspects• Six month custodial sentence for shop thief involved

in cross border crime• Team sentenced to over 30 years for Conspiracy to

Rob• Apprehension of team for attempted theft of

property worth £4,000• Recovery of over £10,000 of property

To share is to participateTo participate is to drive

change.

Q&ACatherine Bowen – Policy & Stakeholder Director

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