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Respondents who said that their premise had been a victim of fraud were then asked to say how many fraud incidents out of the ten staff at their organisation reported to the police or Action Fraud. Almost one in ten (8%) said that staff had reported all incidents to the police or Action Fraud and almost half (49%) said they reported some incidents, but not all. Thefts by customer, for the Wholesale and retail sector, largely comprises shoplifting incidents.
Figure 2.1 shows how frequently respondents reported experiencing each crime type, with commentary by crime type below. In the 2021 CVS, Head Office representatives for an additional two large retailers were asked about experience of crime at these premises, with both providing responses to the ‘Violence and Assaults’ section of the questionnaire. Where the additional data have been included, this is stated in the commentary and related tables. The ‘Bulletin Tables’ and ‘Additional Tables’ also provide information on prevalence, frequency of crime, impact of Covid-19 on crime, impact of crime on businesses, crime prevention, reporting rates and perceptions of crime and the police.
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Looking at levels of shoplifting offences recorded by the police in England and Wales, these peaked in the year to March 2018 and then decreased in the following years. A large fall (of 36%) was seen in the year to March 2021, following closures of non-essential shops during the first year of the pandemic. The Wholesale and retail sector has been included in each of the eight years during which the CVS has been run, as it is one of the largest sectors and is known to experience high volumes of the crimes covered by the survey. This is the estimated number of business premises that were victims of crime, divided by the total number of premises in that sector, multiplied by 100 to give percentages.
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However, where available, estimates for previous years are provided in the commentary, to provide context. Data tables for previous years are available on the ‘Crime against businesses statistics’ page on Gov.UK. The sample of small independent retailers was boosted to enable more robust analysis of a sub-sector which was of particular interest to users of the CVS. The target was for a quarter of the overall target (i.e. 1,000 interviews) to be completed by small independent retailers. The small sample size meant some detailed analysis was not possible, however available findings are reported in Section 8.
To provide more robust estimates for the small independent retailers, the analysis in this section is based on small premises who were already included in the main sample, along with those from the boost sample. Between April 2020 and March 2021, the Wholesale and retail sector needed to adapt to running their premises during the Covid-19 pandemic. Premises contended with lockdown restrictions and other policy measures introduced to reduce the risk of spreading the virus (e.g., social distancing and face coverings). As part of the 2021 CVS, respondents were asked about their experiences of running their business during the pandemic. In the 2021 CVS, two large retailers submitted responses for an additional 145 premises selected in the sample via their Head Offices.
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The reference period will also return to that used previously, i.e. crime experienced in the 12 months prior to interview. This bulletin presents findings from the 2021 Commercial Victimisation Survey , a survey that examines the extent of crime against business premises in England and Wales. The CVS was previously run in 1994, 2002 and then each year since 2012, focusing on a selection of sectors defined by the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007 . Findings in this report are based on a survey of 1,715 California adult residents, including 1,263 interviewed on cell phones and 452 interviewed on landline telephones. The sample included 569 respondents reached by calling back respondents who had previously completed an interview in PPIC Statewide Surveys in the last six months.
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These have not been included in this publication as 2021 CVS data are not directly comparable to those from previous survey years, for reasons outlined in the Introduction. The CVS included questions about reporting policies and whether staff at premises report crimes to the police, for each crime type experienced. In previous CVS years, these questions were asked in relation to the most recent incident only. Similar findings were reported for all other retailers , with just over one third (34%) saying that they report all incidents of customer theft to the police and nearly six in ten (57%) saying that this depended on the circumstances or items stolen. When breaking the data down further by retail and wholesale premises and business size, some differences could be seen.
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Respondents that confirmed experiencing a crime at their premises were then asked how frequently they experienced such victimisation. Theft by customers was one of the most commonly experienced crime types by small independent retailers (by 21%). However, respondents at the majority (63%) of premises that experienced theft by customers reported that such incidents occurred only once or several times per year. Focusing on the retail sector, one of the greatest differences in the rate of crime by business size was seen in theft by customers.
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As well as the range of core offences covered by the survey, the CVS questionnaire also included a module about crime prevention, and another about perceptions of crime and the police. Respondents were randomly assigned to answer either the crime prevention module or the perceptions of crime and the police module. Respondents were asked whether the business at the current premises had experienced a range of crimes between April 2020 and March 2021. If so, they were then asked how frequently crimes of each type had been experienced in the same period.
