Crime and Security Research
Four police forces in the West Midlands have joined the Action Fraud scheme. Action Fraud is a service run by the National Fraud Authority whose job it is to co-ordinate the UK’s response to fraud. The purpose of the scheme is to act as a single point of contact for the public to report incidents of fraud, these are then […]
Read moreThe Home Office recently announced that they would be spending an additional £500,000 to help communities combat youth violence. They also announced the expansion of their Ending Gang and Youth Violence frontline team to cover four more priority areas. Gang culture is a major influence on knife crime, being a factor in as much as 60% of cases according to […]
Read moreProf. Martin Gill recently spoke about the phenomenon of ‘crash for cash’ insurance fraud on a video produced by the Insurance Fraud Bureau. This type of insurance fraud adds an estimated £50 to the annual insurance costs of individual policyholders. It can also be a contributing factor to organised crime, with the proceeds of insurance fraud funding more serious crime, […]
Read moreLast week our Director, Martin Gill, chaired the Retail Fraud ‘On The Road’ Conference in Leicester. He reported back on a wide array of very good speakers reflecting on such diverse topics as learning from the Olympics to issues involved in centralising a Loss Prevention team. Martin also gave a breakfast briefing in which he reported on some of the issues that […]
Read moreYesterday our Director, Martin Gill gave a talk on the state of the security sector in which he pointed to both positive trends, not least the growing perception that contract security providers can deliver, and less positive ones, the relatively low status of security functions within business. He felt that the Police Crime Commissioners may provide an opportunity to increase […]
Read moreToday Perpetuity’s Director, Professor Martin Gill chaired the Retail Fraud ‘On The Road’ Conference at the King Power Stadium in Leicester. Having published 13 books and over 100 articles as well as being the editor of Security Journal Martin is excellently suited for this role. With 350 delegates, 30 exhibitors and 15 speakers I am sure this has been a […]
Read moreWith less than two weeks to go until the Security Excellence Awards we are getting quite excited. The Security Research Initiative is a finalist in the Security Partnering Initiative of the Year category. Having been nominated a number of times for this in the past we are hoping that this year will be our year! The awards, now in their fourteenth […]
Read moreIt has been 10 years since the launch of Perpetuity Research, you can learn more about the company history over on our ‘About Us’ page.
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