Action Against Business Crime (AABC), a joint venture between the Home Office and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has as appointed Michael Schuck as its chief executive.

AABC works by boosting the work of local business crime partnerships. The partnerships bring businesses, police and local authority representatives together to exchange information about offenders, set-up radio links between stores and share crime prevention advice.

Mr Schuck has been BRC's assistant director for retail crime policy for the last nine years, helping the BRC develop a network of retail crime partnerships across England and Wales and raising awareness of the problems businesses faces with crime.

Updated: 11:13 Wednesday, July 14, 2004