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Australia’s HC [Human Capital] Online lists a few specific steps to help reduce the impact of employee theft on your organisation – steps just as relevant for UK businesses.
Suggestions include good hiring practices – pre-employment screening – effective policies for employees and visible surveillance.

Merseyside Police are cracking down on shoplifters and the people who buy their stolen goods.
Inspector Joanne Preston said, “People who buy goods they suspect are stolen are committing a criminal offence. Shoplifters only do what they do because there is a market to sell to.”

Retailers are increasingly giving lifetime bans to shoplifters and using private companies to sue them, notes the She Said blog in the Observer. Shoplifting is at its highest level in four years and rose by 6% in 2013, according to recent figures released by the Office for National Statistics. The British Retail Consortium estimates that …

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is urging all small business owners to thoroughly check candidates’ applications, according to the Nottingham Post. Nearly one in five members have taken on an employee who had used a false reference, an FSB survey has found. The FSB collaborated with BBC1′s Fake Britain on a survey of 1,800 …

A persistent shoplifter from Mansfield has been given a two-year antisocial behaviour order, according to the Nottingham Post. Over the last 13 years, Shirley Storer, 32, of Grove Road, Church Warsop, has posed a problem for shop workers in the centre and surrounding retail parks due to her persistent thieving and aggressive behaviour. For the …

The Coventry Telegraph reports that, unlike almost every other crime in Coventry, shoplifting in the city centre is on the up. Shoplifting at city’s West Orchard centre has remained fairly constant in the last few years, despite a rise nationally. One of the reasons for that is the high definition CCTV cameras set up in …