JD Sports To Use Tagging Sprays

Wednesday, 1st May 2024 at 11:57am

The Retail Gazette website reports that JD Sports is introducing tagging sprays across its stores nationwide as it ramps up security measures in its fight against shoplifting.

The tagging sprays work by leaving a synthetic DNA and a UV marker on property and criminals, which can then be used to link assets to owners and criminals to crime scenes.

JD Sports said the measure will help to tackle the rise of “steaming”, where large gangs run into targeted locations, threaten staff with violence and then run away with armfuls of stock.

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