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Business crime affects all businesses, however it is often the smaller firms who are hit the hardest because they cannot absorb the cost. This type of crime has far ranging consequences beyond the direct financial cost of the loss or property damage. It can put insurance premiums up, damage a business’s ability to meet customers needs, cause reputational damage with both customers and suppliers, negatively impact employees, jeopardise future work and waste valuable time.

Rural crime has been estimated to cost the economy more than £800 million annually, with people being markedly less satisfied with policing in rural areas than across the country as a whole. With a large number of people in Warwickshire living in smaller towns and villages where farming and the countryside are focal points for the community, Philip Seccombe wants to ensure that rural crime, such as burglary, agricultural theft, fly-tipping, rustling and trespass is taken as seriously as crime in urban areas.

Being a victim of crime can be truly damaging and have lasting impacts on feelings of safety and wellbeing. This is not only about the incident itself, but all too often the complexity, fragmented nature and quality of the services that the victim and their families can access.

Conservative PCCs will always do whatever is necessary to protect their communities. The scale of the threat to our country from a number of terrorist groups remains serious, and the rise of ISIL in Syria and Iraq has created new havens for terrorists from which attacks against Britain can be planned, financed and directed.

Anti-social behaviour is a broad term used to describe the day-to-day incidents of crime, nuisance and disorder that make many people’s lives a misery – from litter and vandalism, to public drunkenness or aggressive dogs, to noisy or abusive neighbours.

The growth of the internet has transformed our lives – but it also opens our communities up to new risks from criminals, hackers and foreign intelligence services. To keep our country safe this Government published a national Cyber Security Strategy in November 2011, backed up with £860 million funding in the National Cyber Security Programme. In the Spending Review the Government more than doubled this funding to £1.9 billion over the next five years.