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Police Interceptor teams disrupt organised shoplifting gangs

As part of its current focus on Business Crime the Police Service of Northern Ireland is highlighting the work done by its ANPR Interceptor team, in collaboration with partners in the business sector, to tackle shoplifting gangs. The ANPR ...

19 Oct 2022 at 12:33

Crime & Courts

Female duo in Derry court accused of shoplifting spree

One of two women, described as being members of 'an organised stealing to order gang,' was remanded in custody at Derry Magistrate's Court yesterday on a number of theft charges. Nadine Johnson (37), of Elaghmore Park in the Galliagh ...

23 Jun 2022 at 14:33

Police-recorded shoplifting offences in England and Wales jump 37%

The number of shoplifting offences recorded by police in England and Wales has risen to the highest level in 20 years. A total of 430,104 offences were logged by forces last year, up more than a third (37%) on the 315,040 recorded ...

25 Apr 2024 at 18:25

Third of service workers consider quitting because of abusive customers

Nearly a third of service workers have considered leaving their role because of customer hostility, research shows. New data from the Institute of Customer Service has revealed that many workers have taken sick leave after facing ...

13 Nov 2023 at 09:30

Scotland

Shoplifting and domestic abuse soar as recorded crime rises in Scotland

Recorded crime in Scotland has risen in the past year, with figures showing domestic abuse up by 22% and shoplifting by 34%. Police Scotland recorded 300,070 crimes in the year to June 2024, official statistics indicate, up 3% ...

27 Aug 2024 at 18:41

Crime & Court

Portlaoise shop theft charges under new garda crackdown on black market serving crime

A woman has been arrested and charged by Gardaí accused of a string of shop thefts across three counties just days into a new policing operation that targets organised retail crime with a link to the black market. A Garda ...

13 Dec 2023 at 10:33

‘Violent attacks on shop workers not being responded to by police’

Police officers are not turning up to deal with violent attacks on shop staff because the criminal has already fled, a coalition of businesses and workers has said as it calls for a commitment to tackling unprecedented ...

20 Sept 2023 at 00:01

City

John Lewis boss calls for public inquiry into decline of UK high streets

The boss of John Lewis has called for a royal commission into Britain’s high streets, which she said risk becoming “looting grounds” for crime and overrun with vacant shops. Dame Sharon White, chairwoman of the John ...

11 Sept 2023 at 12:54

Cooper pledges clampdown on shoplifting

“Everything feels broken” after 13 years of Conservative government, the shadow home secretary has said as she pledged to clamp down on shoplifting and crimes affecting local businesses. Yvette Cooper was visiting ...

26 Oct 2023 at 17:23

Government U-turns on new offence of assaulting shopworkers

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said fresh measures to stop retail crime will show shop workers that “we’ve got their back” as he announced assaulting shop staff will be made a separate criminal offence. Mr Sunak ...

10 Apr 2024 at 13:55

City

Co-op reports tumbling profits amid ‘turbulent’ conditions

The Co-op Group saw profits fall over the past year as it grappled with food inflation, rainy weather dampening convenience shopping, and the highest ever levels of shoplifting, the retailer said. The ...

04 Apr 2024 at 08:35

City

John Lewis boss says shoplifting has become an ‘epidemic’

Shoplifting has become an “epidemic”, with incidents not always investigated by police, the boss of John Lewis has said. Dame Sharon White, chairwoman of the John Lewis Partnership, which also owns ...

12 Sept 2023 at 13:26

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