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<p>The Crime Survey for England and Wales which the independent Office for National
Statistics cites as the most reliable measure of long-term trends in crime does not
capture whether or not crime is perpetrated by organised criminal gangs.</p><p><br>Some
information about organised crime committed against businesses is available from the
Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS). Victims of crime interviewed by the CVS are
asked whether they perceived crimes to have been committed by “an organised group
of criminals”, a “loosely knit group”, or “someone working alone”. It is important
to note the subjective nature of this question and findings should be interpreted
with caution.</p><p><br>The 2017 CVS showed that 39% of business premises in the Agriculture,
Forestry and Fishing sector that had been victims of burglary thought it was committed
by “an organised group of criminals”, an increase of 16 percentage points compared
with the previous survey in 2013. Estimates for other acquisitive crimes are not available
due to small sample sizes in the survey.</p>
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