All Crime articles – Page 38

  • Blog

    Tackling retail crime

    2009-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Local partneships can establish an effective approach to crimes against shops, says James Lowman

  • Features and analysis

    Vandalised store rues shutter ruling

    2009-02-20T00:00:00Z

    Southport retailers who were forced to remove their security shutters by the local council have had their store vandalised.

  • News

    Jail sentences for shoplifters to stay

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Custodial sentences will continue to be a possible punishment for serial shoplifters, according to new guidelines published by the Sentencing Advisory Panel (SAP).

  • News

    Small firms fail to report crime

    2008-12-13T00:00:00Z

    The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has found that 64% of small businesses were victims of crime over the past year but that less than half of incidents were reported to the police.

  • Features and analysis

    New guidelines back jail for shoplifters

    2008-12-11T00:00:00Z

    Shoplifters who target independent retailers will face harsher penalties according to new guidelines from the Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC)

  • News

    UK tops league for shoplifting

    2008-11-28T00:00:00Z

    UK stores suffer bigger losses to retail theft than any other country in Europe, a new report has revealed.

  • News

    Tories study retail crime

    2008-11-28T00:00:00Z

    The Conservative Party has launched a Commission to look at the problem of retail crime.

  • Features and analysis

    MP seeks support for Shoplifting Bill

    2008-11-27T11:33:23.990Z

    Vale of York MP Anne McIntosh has tabled an Early Day Motion to promote support for her Shoplifting Bill

  • Features and analysis

    Credit crunch crimewave

    2008-10-31T00:00:00Z

    A shoplifting offence takes place every 90 seconds in the UK, and tough economic conditions could make the figure worse, according to the British Retail Consortium's (BRC) latest Retail Crime Survey.

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Friend or foe? Entrapment never used to be a police tactic

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    No one likes to take on the police. You want them to be Britain’s finest, on your side, fighting the villains. But they sure as hell ain’t perfect and here’s a really horrible story to prove it. Raj Patel, Leeds, rang to complain...

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Now the police are interested in the Halifax case

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    I asked if anyone else had suffered losses from their bank account in London’s Woolwich area following the case of Naresh Sandhir, who lost £8,000 in a week from four deposits to cover PayPoint, Lottery and bus passes at his local Halifax branch...

  • News

    Co-op joins the war against knife crime

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The Heart of England Co-op has made a stand against knife crime by removing all kitchen knives from sale at its 33 food stores. The society has also enforced a strict Challenge 25 policy for knife sales at its eight non-food stores. Heart of England...

  • Features and analysis

    Crime: Roundup - October 3 2008

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    A store owner was stabbed in the arm after grappling with a knife-wielding robber at his store in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The raider escaped with all the notes from the till at Jitu Patel’s Supamac store. But despite losing blood, Jitu...

  • News

    Crime

    2008-09-05T00:00:00Z

    A retailer in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, stood up to a violent shoplifter who racially abused him. Saki Ghafoor, who runs a Nisa store in Bensham, sprang into action when he saw thief Tracy Forster on CCTV stealing four cans of lager. Violence...

  • Features and analysis

    Attackers strike as police ignore call

    2008-09-05T00:00:00Z

    A brutal attack on a 60-year-old shop assistant could have been avoided if police had been quicker to respond to a call for help, a Birmingham retailer has claimed. Nadeem Sajad contacted police and asked them to move on a large group of disorderly...

  • News

    Smuggling to rise in crime spree ahead

    2008-09-05T00:00:00Z

    The trade in illegally imported goods such as cigarettes is set to rise as a result of the economic slowdown, a leaked Home Office letter to the prime minister has revealed.  Rates of alcohol, tobacco and fuel smuggling are forecast to leap as...

  • Features and analysis

    Shoplifters to say sorry for stealing

    2008-07-25T00:00:00Z

    Retailers are to receive apologies from youths who have stolen from their stores or committed a crime against them.

  • Features and analysis

    A stand against knife crime

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    An East London retailer has handed his entire stock of 300 lock knives to police in a stand against knife crime.

  • Features and analysis

    Police to harass yobs

    2008-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has pledged to turn the tables on youths who engage in antisocial behaviour and has instructed police to harass them in their homes.

  • Features and analysis

    CCTV failing to cut crime

    2008-05-16T00:00:00Z

    There are more than 4.5 million of them in the UK, but CCTV cameras are failing to cut crime, a senior police officer has claimed.