London Stores Robbed Every 15 Mins

Wednesday, 8th June 2022 at 11:21am

The My London website reports that shoplifting in London has become so prolific that traders are being robbed once every 15 minutes.

The number of offences in Soho has doubled in one year and across the capital, there were 35,531 shoplifting cases reported in the last 12 months – 97 per day.

A spokesperson for the British Independent Retailers Association said, “As well as the financial pain, shop theft also brings about conflict and we have seen more aggressive behaviour to shop owners and their employees when they challenge the perpetrators.”

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