All Crime articles – Page 36
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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
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News
McColl’s ATMs ready to keep the fiver alive
Martin McColl stores will be the first in the UK to offer customers £5-only cash machines.
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Features and analysis
Local stores in the front line of violent crime
The tidal wave of crime against retailers has continued into the summer with several shopworkers having their lives threatened during terrifying store raids in May and June.
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Features and analysis
Retailers sceptical of in-store crime rehab scheme
Young shoplifters in Norwich are being forced to work shifts in the stores they stole from as part of a new police scheme to prevent them re-offending.
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Features and analysis
Police to spend more time on patrol
The government has pledged to bring common sense back to policing and have more officers patrolling the streets rather than meeting targets and filling out paperwork.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Don’t bank on fair treatment
Barclaycard Merchant Bank has removed its credit/debit terminal from a retailer in the North-west because a transaction for £1,018 which he processed turned out to be fraudulent.
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Product News
Criminal gang targets cigarette gantries
Store owners in the West Midlands have been hit by a spate of break-ins targeting their cigarette gantries.
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Blog
Costs, crime and fairness: the local shops' agenda
The Association of Convenience Stores has set out the priorities for local shops which it will take to the new government
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Features and analysis
Howdy, partner: teaming up to take on retail crime
Working with other businesses in your area can help better protect your store, writes Aidan Fortune
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Features and analysis
Election issues: crime
Violent crimes against c-store staff have been in the headlines recently and all parties are sympathetic, in words at least, to the pressures stores are under.
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Features and analysis
Get MPs to commit to clampdown on crime
West Sussex Spar store owner Steve Denham is urging fellow retailers to ask prospective MPs how they plan to reduce violent attacks on store staff. Steve, who was a victim of an aggressive break-in last year, says the next few weeks are a...