Facts about crime
It’s certainly wise to take precautions to protect yourself, your family and your company from the threat of crime.
Take a look at our crime facts and you’ll see what we mean.
Crime fact
Estimates from the Commercial Victimisation Survey put the direct cost of crime at £780 million for retailers and £275 million for manufacturers.
The most recent estimate by the Home Office on the cost of crime puts the figure much higher at £9.1 billion for the commercial and public sectors combined.
(Source: S Brand and Price (2000) the economic and social costs of crime, H.O. Research Paper 217)
Crime fact
New research by the Open University for Lloyds TSB has found that more than half of all small businesses have been victims of crime in the past 12 months.
Crime fact
The number of malicious fires has doubled over the last decade to become the largest single cause of major fires in this country with brigades reporting more than 100,000 incidents in the past year.
(Source: Norwich Union 26/07/03)
Crime fact
The cost of arson related fires in England and Wales in 1999 was estimated, in a recent Home Office report, at £2.1b. In the last ten years there have been around 1.8 million arson fires resulting in 22,000 injuries and 1,100 deaths.
(Source: Norwich Union 26/07/03)
Crime fact
Arson, arguably the most damaging crime for small business and often the hardest to protect against, rose by almost 20%
(Source: AXA’s business crime index March 2004)
Crime fact
The cost of crime has risen by 70% since 2002 and by 7% in the last three months.
On average businesses affected by crime end up worse off by more than £3.5K, that is without taking into account business disruption, the effect on their reputation and staff morale.
Malicious damage appears also to be on the increase showing a 9% quarterly rise.
(Source: AXA’s business crime index, March 2004)
Crime fact
In excess of 95% of intruder alarm activations are false alarms.
The ACPO policy requires monitored alarm systems, connected to private security company owned monitoring stations, to provide a second alarm to confirm activation and secure a police response.
Non monitored alarms are isolated, can be less reliable, more prone to error and therefore less likely to secure a police response without additional evidence to indicate the alarm is genuine.
(Source: ACPO Press Release 12/06/03, 47/03)
Please note:
At GSS we have a unique zero false alarm rate. |
Crime fact
There are around 1.2 million abandoned vehicles in the UK each year costing local councils and private organisations millions of pounds to remove.
Crime fact
In 2001 the Environment Agency responded to 3,774 incidents of fly tipping, which cost local councils and private companies millions of pounds to remove. Approximately 60% of local authorities believe that levels of fly tipping have increased since the introduction of Landfill tax.
Please note:
The GSS research and development team has been working closely with environmental protection specialists to create a versatile and flexible technological solution to deal with the range of environmental problems plaguing our streets, neighbourhoods and countryside. This year has seen an alarming increase in the problem of abandoned vehicles, fly tipping, discarded ‘sharps’ drugs paraphernalia and environmental pollution caused by litter and hazardous waste.
Environmental CCTV is a term unique to GSS. |
Crime fact
Graffiti 'artists' are costing London £100m a year. Transport companies spent £6m removing daubing from buses and trains.
Local authorities in London spent a combined £7m scrubbing walls of schools, hospitals and businesses.
Crime fact
Lone worker monitoring – employers are responsible, by law, for ensuring the safety of their staff at all times, this includes lone workers i.e. employees working alone in remote circumstances.
Crime fact
Two thirds of UK businesses have been victims of crime in the past year at an average cost of £8K per company.
A survey of 18,000 small firms found 6 out of 10 had been victims of crime in the past year.
At least 1 in 4 said their premises had been attacked or vehicles damaged. 1 in 10 had been hit by graffiti and 5% robbed.
(Source: Norwich Union NET risk 21/05/2004)
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