Legal & General continues its long term relationship with Crimestoppers, the charity set up to provide an independent and anonymous way for the General Public to report crime. This is currently closely linked in with our Compliance functions as we see strong links between the prevention of financial crime and street crime. Our relationship with the independent charity is vital, as Diana Miller, Group Compliance Director, explains:
“As a major financial services organisation, we play an important role in helping to prevent financial crime, so it makes sense for us to be linked to a charity like Crimestoppers who actively target crime in the community.”
We’ve supported many Crimestoppers’ initiatives including:- Me, Myself and Eye, a crime reduction campaign aimed at eight and nine year olds.
- Blue Blindfold, a programme designed to raise awareness among the public of the nature and extent of human trafficking in the UK.
- The anti-drug, violence and crime programme, SNAP (Say No and Phone)
- Junior Shadow CS, a fun, interactive website aimed at young people aged 11-16+ about crime.
In October 2008, in line with National Fraud week, Crimestoppers supported our Financial Fraud team in engaging employees on the risk of personal ID Fraud.
Michael Laurie, Crimestoppers’ Chief Executive, said:
“Support from a range of businesses has been extremely valuable to the development and success of Crimestoppers over the last 20 years. Legal & General continues to play a key role in helping us deliver targeted projects to communities. Most recently, this has been demonstrated through agreeing to sponsor our new youth resource, Junior Shadow. This forms a crucial part of our youth programme, which is working hard to combat the rising tide of gun and knife crime in some of London’s worst boroughs.”