FSB launches anti-crime campaign

Fri 18 Jan 2008

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has launched the Every Crime Every Time Campaign, a national initiative to help increase the reporting of crime against small businesses.

Working in partnership with the Coalition Against Crime, the FSB hopes to encourage small business to report crime to the police and keep a record of each occurrence.

David Croucher-Jones, home affairs chairman, explained that these crimes are not "victimless" and it was communities that often suffered.

The Coalition Against Crime is looking to collect more information about the scale, nature and impact of crime upon businesses.

"By reporting every incident of crime, anti-social behaviour or verbal and physical abuse against staff, small business owners can help us to put more pressure on police forces to take crime against business seriously," said its chief executive, Anne Tate.

The FSB says a fifth of all crime in the UK is committed against business.