The NABCP national conference was held in Northampton on Thursday, 6th April, and was well attended by over 100 delegates working in the business crime sector across the UK.

Presentations were delivered by a number of partnerships and other speakers who focused on the value and benefits of partnerships to local and national businesses, police constabularies and the local communities they serve. Keynote speaker, Georgina Barnard, Head of Crime Reduction and Partnerships at the Metropolitan Police, reiterated this theme in her presentation focusing around the National Business Crime Hub.

The conference demonstrated that business reduction crime partnerships were working across an ever expanding variety of business crime categories emphasising the need for partnership work and the joined up approach to the work they do across the UK.  

Chief executive Richard Barron said, “I am pleased that the conference has been a great success and we have managed to attract a considerable number of new partnership delegates for the first time.  This shows the value of our work to the business community, and will be a key to expanding our services and membership as we work with the National Business Crime Hub to a create national standard, which will reflect changing police priorities and the enhanced need for business communities to work with us to shoulder more of this work.”

With the increasing use of modern technology the crime reporting and monitoring platform, SentrySIS was needed more than ever to assist crime partnerships with their constantly evolving remits allow them to operate more efficiently.  

Chris Nriapia from SentrySIS said “It was great listening to the concerns of the business crime reduction partnership community and identifying how SentrySIS fills the gaps other software systems leave. How SentrySIS feed into the national strategy was also interesting to learn more about as through our current relationships with the Police, we are best placed to fulfil the requirements of not only crime partnerships but businesses wanting to report crime online.”

Durham Police constabulary have been working with SentrySIS for the last 12 months where local businesses can now report crime online using a fully digital and paperless solution. This process includes the automatic generation of a ‘police approved’ MG11 witness statement along with a digital evidence pack containing images, CCTV video and detailed information about the reported incident. The task of copying CCTV onto disk and the need to physically go collect DVD’s are now no longer needed if businesses use the SentrySIS platform.

Police constabularies wanting more information on how they can use the SentrySIS system to receive submitted crime’s online can contact Sgt Adam Norris at Durham Police or Chris Nriapia from SentrySIS on 0844 474 0100.