The British Chambers of Commerce reports that the cost of criminal damage to UK businesses runs out at about £12.6 billion - up by a fifth since 2004 - and is ‘hugely damaging’.
50% of firms responding to the BCC survey had suffered crime last year ranging from burglary, damage to vehicles and other vandalism such as graffiti.
Strangely, Home Office statistics neglect to report crime against business within the British Crime Survey and Police have no definition with which to report business crime.
The net result is that nationally crime appears to be falling - when for businesses the reality is wildly different.
With the support of its members and the Conservative Party, the BCC is campaigning further for both the reporting and combating of such crime, especially in areas where leniency in punishment, on shoplifters for example, is seen as having little deterrent effect.
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