All Crime articles – Page 19
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NewsCoronavirus: Stockpiling shopper attacks store manager for refusing milk sale
Convenience store manager Anita Nye is imploring the general public to treat hard-working shop staff with far greater respect, after she was brutally assaulted by a customer who was attempting to stockpile milk.
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NewsMP secures time for new bill to protect shopworkers from violence and abuse
Alex Norris MP has successfully secured parliamentary time to consider new legislation to protect shopworkers.
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NewsIncidents of violence and abuse against shopworkers up 9%
Incidents of violence and abuse against shopworkers have risen to 424 each day, up 9% on last year, according to the British Retail Consortium’s latest annual crime survey.
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NewsMPs join call for new legislative protection of shopworkers
A specific new offence for attacks against people serving the public needs to be created in a bid to better protect shopworkers, a group of MPs have stated.
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NewsNew partnership to improve retailer access to anti-shoplifting technology
Retailers now have greater access to GDPR-compliant facial recognition technology which helps guard against shoplifting, following a tie-up between Vista CCTV and Facewatch.
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NewsScottish convenience retailers hit by shoplifting “pandemic”
Shoplifting is now “essentially a pandemic” in Scotland, with almost all retailers who responded to a new survey on retail crime saying that they were victims of shoplifting on a daily basis.
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NewsLatest shop theft figures “vastly underestimate” scale of problem
New official figures revealing a 3% drop in police-recorded shop theft “vastly underestimate” the scale of the problem, according to the Association of Convenience Stores.
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NewsCentral England Co-op supports shoplifter rehab scheme in Birmingham
Central England Co-op has linked up with West Midlands Police to support a pioneering scheme in Birmingham aimed at helping prolific shoplifters enter rehab and turn their lives around.
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NewsPolice appeal following traumatic armed raid on Derbyshire store
Derbyshire Police are appealing for witnesses following a traumatic armed raid on a village shop in Overseal earlier this week.
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NewsGovernment under mounting pressure to take action on retail violence
The industry has reiterated calls to the government to take action to tackle violence and abuse towards shopworkers.
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NewsSouthern Co-op launches £100,000 fund aimed at reducing retail crime
The Southern Co-op has launched a £100,000 Safer Neighborhood Fund aimed at reducing retail crime.
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NewsPolice appeal for witnesses to “distressing” c-store robbery in Bedford
Bedfordshire Police are appealing for witnesses to a “very distressing” convenience store robbery in Bedford, in which a staff member was in fear of his life.
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NewsJTI pulls more gantries from retailers convicted of selling illicit tobacco
Three further c-store retailers convicted of selling illicit tobacco have had their store gantries removed by JTI.
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Dear Jac
So much crime…so little help. Is it worse than ever?
This retailer has good reason to think it is so.
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NewsRetailer convicted of selling illicit tobacco twice escapes jail
A retailer convicted for the second time in two years of selling illicit tobacco from his store has avoided jail on health grounds and because magistrates thought there was a “realistic chance of rehabilitation”.
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NewsACS calls on retailers to respond to 2020 Crime Survey
Store owners and managers who have been affected by retail crime in the past year are being urged to record their experiences in the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) 2020 Crime Survey.
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NewsCentral England Co-op launches crackdown on staff abuse
The Central England Co-op has linked up with police forces to launch a new campaign warning people that verbal and physical threats towards workers will ‘not be tolerated’.
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NewsJailed ATM thieves ordered to repay more than £200,000 each
Three men jailed for more than 30 years last year for their part in a string of attacks on convenience store ATMs across Leicestershire and neighbouring counties have now been issued with confiscation orders totalling more than £200,000 each.
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NewsGeneral Election: BRC sets out retail priorities for next government
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has set out a list of key changes which it claims would help the next government to better support the UK’s retail industry.
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NewsAverage store worker abused 21 times a year, survey reveals
The average shop worker is verbally abused, threatened or assaulted more than 21 times a year – or almost once a fortnight - interim figures from Usdaw’s Freedom from Fear survey of over 4,000 retail staff have revealed.