Call for existing laws to be enforced

Crime should be tackled by enforcing existing laws and not by introducing new legislation, the Small Firms Association demanded yesterday.

Commenting on its National Small Business Crime Survey, director Patricia Callan said it appears that business crime does not feature on the political agenda.

“Businesses no longer have faith in a system which has a constitutional responsibility to protect them. For too long the emphasis has been placed on the needs of the perpetrator and not the victims of crime.”