Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to Glasgow’s Evening Times website, city centre police will be armed with body-cams in a bid to deter and catch festive shoplifters during one of Glasgow’s busiest shopping periods.
Images of shoplifters will be shared with retailers’ loss prevention officers, alerting them to potential criminal activity.

The Eastern Daily Press reports on the case of a trusted assistant manager of a Norwich paint centre who stole more than £15,000 from his employer to feed his online gambling addiction.
Simon Brock, who worked at the Dulux Decorator Centre, pocketed money from false refunds in 69 transactions and transferred the cash straight into his own personal bank account.

A story on Lincolnshire Live gives details of a gambler who put thousands of pounds of his employer’s money put into girlfriend’s bank account, to feed his £300-a-month gambling habit.
On completion of a contract for his employer – HCG Heating Construction Ltd – he gave the customer the bank details of his partner for payment.

According to Kent Online, an officer who stole police equipment was collared when detectives took to eBay to find the missing items.

PC Paul Withrington had been stealing for two years and stolen gear was found in his police van and even his lunch box, Canterbury Crown Court heard.

As reported on The Voice website, a building society customer service manager has been jailed for fraudulently transferring money from customers’ accounts.

Sandra Stewart, a Nationwide employee, admitted to police that she had stolen over £27,000 from customer accounts in the 1990s.

According to AOL News, police are recording more shoplifting offences than at any other time in the past 13 years, official figures have revealed.

Police recorded 336,505 shoplifting offences in the year ending in March – a 3% rise compared with the previous year.