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The role of the Chamber of Commerce is to act on behalf of its members at local and national levels.  

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INTRODUCTION The role of the Chamber of Commerce is to act on behalf of its members at local and national levels. Their role is to act as the voices of businesses, to give businesses access to information and help businesses improve security. The Chamber of Commerce can provide training for businesses to enhance staff awareness. This report aims to highlight to the Chamber of Commerce how its member's ways in which crime prevention could be improved to protect companies and businesses. Each year billions of pounds are lost through crime at the workplace, either through staff embezzlement or fraud or through things like shop lifting and credit card and cheque fraud. We will look at each of the types of crimes individually. Conklin (1977) gave the following definition of business crime: "Business crime is an illegal act, punishable by a criminal sanction, which is committed by an individual or a corporation in the course...

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