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A selection of news stories from across the UK, relating to civil recovery, retail theft, employment screening, online fraud and other subjects relevant to the services and crime deterrent solutions that CRS can offer your business.
Barclays Bank Worker Stole £97,000
The Manchester Evening News reports that a trusted bank worker has been jailed after secretly siphoning cash into accounts belonging to her relatives.
When Helen Farrell was questioned by her bosses at Barclays bank, she couldn’t account for more than £97,000.
read moreShoplifting Surge In Aberdeen
According to the Press & Journal, a new police report has shown that incidents of common assault in Aberdeen city centre have almost halved in the last five years, but shoplifting has risen dramatically during the same period, with clothing and cosmetics most popular stolen items.
read moreShoplifting Hot Spots Revealed
According to exclusive analysis of crime statistics by The Mirror, Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent is the most crime-hit shoplifting location in the UK, with a staggering 611 shoplifting offences between in the 12 months to February, or 1.7 offences per day.
Debenhams in Manchester came second in the report.
read more‘Daisychain’ Scam In Fashion Shops
According to the Lytham St Annes Express, a pair of professional shoplifters used a sophisticated ‘daisychain’ scam to target fashion shops in Blackpool.
Charity Moyo and Carolie Nkomo stole dresses, tops and shoes from Topshop and Debenhams, so they could return them for a refund at other stores in the North West.
read moreFerry Company Worker Faked Documents
Kent Online reports that a ferry worker faked vital documents about passenger numbers in a fraud which netted him £20,000.
DFDS Seaways employee, Matthew Jackon – a deputy manifest officer – sold tickets but then stole cash from drivers arriving at the port.
read moreNurse ‘Worked’ At Fictional TV Hospital
Mail Online carries a story of a British nurse who claimed he had worked in the fictional hospital from the TV show ‘ER’.
Amazingly, he got a job as an emergency nurse at St Mary’s Treatment Centre, Portsmouth, in 2008, after claiming to have worked at ‘County General’.
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