• Becomes an Effective Crime Reduction Strategy between Local Authority, Police and the Business Community.

• Encourages data sharing to reduce the effect and levels of crime in an intelligence led approach.

• Target the most prevalent offenders by way of exclusion notices thereby reducing the opportunity to commit crime.

• Has direct benefit to the Police, Justice System and business by freeing up valuable Police resources, reducing offender footfall through the courts and keeping security personnel on the shop floor.

• Reduces losses increasing profitability

• Provides accurate intelligence and up-to-date images of all offenders subject to exclusion which in turn builds confidence of staff to manage offenders appropriately and legally.

• Provides professional ran business crime radio link for members and provisions of equipment required to meet the needs of the link. ( I.d Recognition, Panic button facility, Private call function and Multi Group Capacity )

• Access to the National Database of business crime offenders ( NBIS ) in strict accordance with Data Protection Act 1998.

• Produce accurate statistics and graph information to individual members and stats on overall initiative performance. ( Generated through NBIS )

• Six Weekly Business Crime Meetings

• Strategic Representation Business Crime Initiative at the Partnership Tasking Business Group meeting. Senior Police / Local authority and partner agencies attend tackling current crime trends across the Borough.

• BBCI represents our members at the North West Regional Crime Partnership where intelligence from all regional partners is shared on current threats and trends.

• The Initiative is a member of the Action Against Business Crime National Body and the schemes Business Crime Manager currently is a partnership representative on the Policy Action Group for the National Body.

• Greater Manchester Police Crime Reduction Advisors work closely with the scheme and are available to give advice on matters of crime prevention.

• The services of the business crime team are available for out of hours training on a range of crime prevention themes to all members