Event Overview

TThe IBP Focus on Robbery™ & Serious Crime Symposium, now in its ninth year, is widely regarded as an excellent forum for stimulating academic content, understanding latest crime trends and commercial networking.

Over 100 delegates attended last years’ annual conference with senior representatives from major supermarkets, high street banks, independent ATM deployers, retailers and the
cash in transit industry.

Following on from this success IBP have arranged another exciting programme with another mix of first-rate speakers confirmed for this years event.

This years Symposium is focussing on the types of threats being experienced and looking at the wide range of solutions being used to counter them. Case studies will be presented by
experts in their field from retail, cash-in-transit, banking, Police and Chamber of Commerce along with presentations from the National Association of Goldsmiths and British Oil
Security Syndicate.

We are very pleased to have Richard Childs QPM, veteran conference facilitator, formerly Lincolnshire Police Chief Constable and Managing Director of ACPO CPI, chairing the
event for the 7th year in succession.

The speakers include Michael Hoare, Chief Executive Officer for the National Association of Goldsmiths; Maureen Frost, Director of Operations, Hampshire Chamber of Commerce; Michael Thwaites, Security Manager at Bank Machine; Kevin Eastwood, Executive Director, British Oil Security Syndicate; Mark Stevenson, Security Manager at Tates; Steve Nelson,
Group Security Manager, Thomas Cook Group; Kevin O’Connor, Risk Director at G4S Cash Solutions; Tony Benson, UK Risk Director, Loomis UK and Chair of BSIA CViT Security Group; John Keilty, Detective Superintendent, The Flying Squad; and Tim Dodd, Detective Sergeant, Serious Organised Crime / Robbery Desk .

The Symposium is held at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on the south coast and the unique venue contributes to the success of the event. Held over 2 days the Symposium commences with a full itinerary of speaker presentations throughout Thursday, followed by the annual dinner which offers networking opportunities in a more informal setting. Friday consists of a morning session of speaker presentations followed, for those that wish to take part, in the IBP/Flying Squad Challenge Yacht Race.

The Focus on Robbery™ Partnership is a joint not-for-profit initiative formed in 2004 by IBP Group, to harness expertise from every discipline that has an interest in understanding the
reasons for criminal behaviour, analysing the effectiveness of current reduction measures and reducing crime. There is no charge for delegates to attend the Symposium other than to arrange and pay for accommodation. For more information please use the links on the right for more information about sponsors, previous attendees, local hotels and how to get there.

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