Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Sun reports that middle-class shoplifters are on the rise – raiding stores for luxury items like cheese, wine and fine Swiss chocolate such as Lindt.
Store bosses have reported a significant increase in shoplifters who “get a kick out of not paying for a bottle of wine or their Friday night steak”.

According to the BBC News website, a Fermanagh police officer has gone on trial charged with shoplifting.

Linda Totten has been charged with theft of £156.81 of goods from an Asda store on Christmas Eve 2013, and items of an unknown value four days earlier.

The Sun reports that changes to the way victims’ reports of a crime are assessed are expected to see 150,000 fewer offences being investigated each year.

New guidelines include a directive that crimes involving a loss of under £50 should not be investigated unless there is an identified suspect.

As reported on Jewellery Focus, Britain’s shops collectively lose £800m per year due to shoplifting, according to new research.
The Metropolitan Police had the highest number of shoplifting offences, at an astounding 47,580 – the equivalent of 130 incidents a day

A story on Mail Online shows a video of a shoplifter brazenly stealing a trolley-load of groceries whilst wearing a high-visibility vest.

The thief is being hunted by police after casually strolling out of a Sainsbury’s store with a trolley filled with items, with a value of more than £500.

According to the Express & Star, shoplifters are striking twice every day in Walsall town centre, with a councillor worrying the problem is putting struggling businesses under even more pressure.

Between July 2016 and June this year there were 722 reported incidents in the St. Matthews policing area – 60 a month on average.