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1 results foundAuthor: British Retail Consortium Title: Retail Crime Survey 2012 Summary: This year’s Retail Crime Survey was completed by 44 retailers, employing 1.4 million staff and between them representing 58 per cent of total retail turnover. This marks the most extensive coverage of the survey since its inception over 10 years ago. Retail crime cost UK retailers £1.6 billion in 2011-12, equivalent to almost 135,000 full-time entry level jobs in retail1. This is a 15.6 per cent increase in the value of crime affecting the retail sector compared with the previous year. This year’s survey showed a rise in incidents of crime across a number of categories including customer theft, employee theft, burglary, criminal damage and fraud. Some categories also recorded a rise in the average value of crime per incident. Despite the increase in the number of incidents and the overall cost of crime, there has been a significant reduction in the number of offences being reported to the police. The sector continued to invest heavily to better protect their businesses against all types of crime and anti-social behaviour. Expenditure on crime and loss prevention rose by 7.1 per cent in 2011-12, with a median expenditure of £750,000 per retailer. The average level of shrinkage as a proportion of sales was estimated at 1.21 per cent, down on 1.55 per cent last year. The key challenges over the next year are to: 1 Continue to tackle the under-reporting of offences so that the true extent and impact of crimes affecting the retail sector is more visible and thus ensure a more effective response to rising crime affecting retailers. 2 Secure more effective local engagement between Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), police and retailers to ensure that the effective role that retail plays in delivering safe and vibrant communities is better understood and drives the delivery of quantifiable results. 3 Ensure that there is better co-ordination of police activity to identify and detect offences that cross police force borders. This will involve working with the Association of Chief Police Officers as it continues to find more effective ways to measure crimes affecting business. 4 Provide ongoing evidence to highlight the cost and impact of e-crime on the retail sector to support our campaign for an enhanced policing response to e-crime. Details: London: British Retail Consortium, 2013. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 13, 2013 at: http://www.brc.org.uk/brc_show_document.asp?id=4389&moid=7842 Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.brc.org.uk/brc_show_document.asp?id=4389&moid=7842 Shelf Number: 127609 Keywords: Crimes Against BusinessesEcrimeEmployee TheftRetail Crime (U.K.)Workplace Crime |