Category Archives: Shoplifting

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.

A branch of the Co-op has removed high value cuts of meat from it shelves to deter shoplifters from stealing the merchandise, according to Wales Online.

The store in the centre of Penarth has removed joints and steaks from its displays and customers now have to ask staff members for them specifically.

The Belfast Telegraph reports that a woman claimed she used shoplifting as a “crutch” because she was anxious over a £20,000 credit card debt.

Julie Adair mounted a mammoth thieving spree and stole an “eye-watering” amount of goods, worth “thousands”, and pleaded guilty to 16 charges of shoplifting.