All Crime articles – Page 14
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Features and analysis
Pledge to improve police response to shoplifting welcomed
More resources and time are to be dedicated to tackle reported offences, including shoplifting, where there is a “reasonable lead”, such as CCTV footage or eyewitness accounts
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Features and analysis
Police are failing retailers as Co-op reports record crime levels
The group recorded almost 1,000 incidents a day
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Features and analysis
Retailers call for CCTV grants as shoplifting rises 24% YOY
The Fed is urging government to help with security costs
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Features and analysis
The Fed welcomes plans to increase police presence on the streets
The changes are part of an update to the government’s Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan
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Features and analysis
Shop workers’ mental health damaged by cost of living crisis
More than half (52%) of workers in the retail industry have said that the rising cost-of-living is impacting their mental health
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Features and analysis
HMRC seizes 10.8m cigarettes at Belfast Port
The cigarettes are worth around £5.3m in unpaid taxes
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Features and analysis
£10,000 of illicit tobacco and vape products seized in Preston
Illicit cigarettes, counterfeit hand rolling tobacco and disposable vapes, worth over £10,000, have been seized from two stores in Preston
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Features and analysis
Industry calls for ‘Most Wanted’ lists to tackle repeat shop theft offenders
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has put forward a five-point plan for police forces and the government to do more to take retail crime seriously and support local businesses
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Features and analysis
Counterfeit tobacco gang jailed following seizure of 6.5m cigarettes
The six men were caught with more than 6.5millon cigarettes, worth more than £1.8m in evaded duty
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Features and analysis
ACS urges low tolerance for illicit trade
ACS wants the government to send a clear message that selling these products is not acceptable
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Features and analysis
One million illegal cigarettes seized by Warwickshire County Council
More than one million illegal cigarettes were seized in the last 18 months by Warwickshire County Council’s Trading Standards Service
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Features and analysis
Quail Digital receives King’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade
Quail Digital is one of 148 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise
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Features and analysis
Cost of living crisis leading to increased shopworker abuse
Shopworkers are bearing the brunt of customer frustrations over rising costs
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Features and analysis
Illicit tobacco worth £76,000 seized in Kent stores
242,500 cigarettes and 1,516 pouches of illicit tobacco have been seized by authorities in Kent
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Features and analysis
Illegal tobacco and vapes seized in Dartford and Swanley
Sniffer dogs aided teams of officers on shop inspections to uncover the contraband
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Features and analysis
Middlesbrough store selling illicit tobacco issued with Closure Order
5,750 illicit cigarettes and 2.1kg of illicit hand-rolling tobacco were found at the store
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Features and analysis
Local shops report record levels of theft over last year
New figures from the Association of Convenience Stores have revealed record levels of shop theft being committed against convenience retailers
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Dear Jac
Retailer suffers hate crime victimisation
Sukbhinder Singh and his family have become victims of a campaign of online abuse
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Interviews and Profiles
140,000 illegal cigarettes seized at Lincolnshire stores
The illicit tobacco was seized following an intelligence-led raid by the authorities
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Features and analysis
Abuse and violence against retail workers almost doubles
The British Retail Consortium’s Crime survey has revealed “appalling” levels of abuse and violence against staff