A new partnership between retailers and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will provide hundreds of thousands of law enforcement officers around the country instant access to information on retail crime, the National Retail Federation (NRF) announced.
"This partnership between law enforcement and private industry provides for greater efficiency in intelligence gathering and dissemination, enabling increased arrests, prosecutions, and recoveries of stolen merchandise," David Johnson, section chief, Criminal Investigative Division at the FBI, said in a released statement.
Through the FBI's Law Enforcement Online network, federal and local law enforcement will be able to directly connect to the retail industry's Law Enforcement Retail Partnership Network, or LERPnet, a secure national database where retailers track and report retail crimes, the federation reported. The partnership will enable law enforcement agencies to gain central, immediate access to retail crimes ranging from counterfeiting and organized retail crime to armed robberies and smash-and-grab burglary incidents.
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