52% Of Shoplifting Crimes Unpunished

Saturday, 22nd February 2020 at 11:43pm

According to the Retail Gazette website, recent research has shown that the retail sector is plagued with 1,000 shoplifting incidents per day, and more than half of them reportedly go unpunished.

Police data shows that UK retailers recorded 359,156 incidents of shoplifting in 2019, and 17 of 45 police forces around the UK saw increases in the number of incidents, with Sussex being the worst hit.

In the period January – May 2019, the data indicated that just five per cent of shoplifting incidents resulted in the suspect being ordered to pay compensation, given a caution, penalty notice, fine, suspended sentence or prison sentence.

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