All Crime articles – Page 35
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News
Trading Standards to rat out criminals
Cash-strapped Trading Standards Authorities could soon be armed with new weapons to weed out hidden caches of illicit tobacco in stores and other premises specially trained sniffer rats.
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Government unveils aid for crime victims
The government has launched a £1m programme to help victims of anti-social behaviour and crime. The scheme, unveiled by Home Secretary Theresa May, aims to provide a voice for those who have been affected by crime. The government will...
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Fears grow over the impact of police cuts
Concerns have been raised over the safety of retailers and staff after it emerged that thousands of police community support officers (PCSOs) across England and Wales could lose their jobs. Leaked figures from the Association of Chief...
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Beat crime with Co-op’s free training
The Co-operative Group is to offer its crime awareness training computer programme to independent retailers for free. Currently in the final stages of development, the downloadable software will feature questionnaires on how staff could...
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Features and analysisRetail crime fell in 2010
Crime in convenience stores is on the decrease as retailers invest more to protect their businesses, according to the latest Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) Crime Survey.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: How was this crime perpetrated?
Man goes into Kiran Patel's store, (Coulsdon News in Surrey) and asks for a £100 Ukash voucher, which Kiran put through his Payzone terminal. The customer didn't touch the voucher (neither did he have a mobile with which to photograph it), but then...
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Features and analysis
Crackdown on unpaid crime penalty notices
The authorities are to target offenders with unpaid Penalty Notices for Disorder (PNDs) in a new enforcement campaign.
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Features and analysis
Two arrested after store raid
Two men have been arrested by Norwich police following a raid on a newsagents that resulted in the owner suffering minor injuries.
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News
Robbed retailers found guilty
Two Luton retailers have been given suspended jail sentences for using a wheel brace to tackle thieves who stole from their store.
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Features and analysis
Crime survey open to retailers
Retailers are invited to submit how crime has affected their businesses over the past 12 months to the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) 2011 Crime Survey.
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BlogEditor’s comment: Cut crime, not budgets; Cider rules
The new government's spending review is the great debate of the day, and with good reason. With £80bn to be cut from government spending across four years, it's not just those who work in the public sector who will feel it. One way or another, it will affect us all...
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Features and analysis
Zero Tolerance: Broken promises - can you slash police budgets and fight retail crime?
The government has pledged to fight retail crime and support store workers while at the same time slashing police budgets. Can it do both?
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Features and analysis
Reward fund to help fight store crime
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) and Crimestoppers have joined forces to create a scheme to offer the public cash rewards for information on crimes against retailers
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Features and analysis
Police in retreat from anti-social behaviour
Police refusal to regard tackling anti-social behaviour as "real police work' is marring the lives and livelihoods of millions of Brits, a new report has found.
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Features and analysis
Zero Tolerance: Cut your losses to crime
C-Store’s campaign to help you combat crime and anti-social behaviour shifts up a gear as the need to protect staff and livelihoods grows
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Features and analysis
Public CCTV monitoring could cut store crime
Hundreds of retailers across the UK have signed up to a radical new security system which allows members of the public to monitor live CCTV camera feeds.
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Features and analysis
Stores told to ‘make a note’ of shoplifting
Lincolnshire store owners have lashed out at a police scheme to dissuade them from reporting the theft of goods worth £20 and under
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Features and analysis
May pledges more police on the beat
Government plans to release bobbies from their bureaucratic constraints and put them back on the beat have been welcomed by small shop owners
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Features and analysis
Crime hotline for Yorkshire retailers
Store owners in Yorkshire can now call a special hotline to report and record incidents of anti-social behaviour in and around their store.
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Features and analysis
Granting protection - how stores have secured funding for crime prevention
More than 1,000 retailers have benefited from the £5m allocated by the Home Office to improve store security. Aidan Fortune looks at how some of the money was spent