The National Business Crime Solution (NBCS) has acquired the Business Crime Intelligence Bureau (BCIB), as part of its strategy to reduce criminal activity perpetrated against businesses nationwide in both the retail and wider sectors, Vigilance can report.
The acquisition follows an announcement earlier this year that the NBCS had embarked on a joint venture with the BCIB to create a national managed intelligence hub.
The BCIB will now operate as the National Business Crime Intelligence Bureau (NBCIB) and will continue to receive and analyse crime intelligence perpetrated against UK businesses and provide specialist support in order to identify national prolific offenders.
Jason Trigg, CEO of the Cardinal Group, that has been instrumental in the creation of the NBCS, said: “We are delighted to have acquired the Business Crime Intelligence Bureau. It is an extremely well respected organisation making great strides to fight crime.”
Mr Trigg added: “Combining our analysis and crime intelligence with that of the BCIB, will help us build on the centralised operating model established for the NBCS. With the added support of Police Regional Intelligence Units (RIUs) and police forces, we can ensure retailers across the UK are provided the most up to date information for crime prevention and support. Police Officers have now been seconded to the NBCS through collaboration with the National Business Crime Forum, providing the initiative with access to Police systems which will enable us to bring together the private and public worlds.”
The new National Business Crime Intelligence Bureau will continue as a centralised operating model to facilitate the sharing of information among businesses nationwide. The NBCIB will retain its core analysts whilst also adding new police analysts resources and will be expanding its central operation to also include a location in Nottingham in line with the English Resilience Centre.
Designed as the main data hub of an integrated national operating model, the technology platform that is helping to drive the core strategy of the NBCS is underpinned by a live information and intelligence-sharing platform that is already widely used to tackle retail crime in the USA as LERPnet for retail, CargoNet for logistics, and also used to track manufacturing and machinery theft. Participating businesses enter business crime data into the central system and this information is then collated, analysed and disseminated to other participating business members locally, regionally, nationally or by sector with managed services also provided by the NBCIB in collaboration with the 43 Police Forces across the UK.
Trigg revealed: “Amanda Oliver founded the BCIB and made it into the successful organisation it is today, however Amanda has decided to pursue new career opportunities and we wish her well for the future.