All Crime articles – Page 38
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Features and analysis
Counterfeit criminals are going unchecked
A lack of action by many UK councils and Trading Standards on counterfeiting and piracy is giving criminal gangs a free rein, a leading coalition of retail trade associations and enforcement organisations has claimed.
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Features and analysisStraw tightens shop crime penalties
New tougher penalties for shoplifters have been announced by Justice Secretary Jack Straw.
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Features and analysis
Government must address crime issue
MP Anne MacIntosh has criticised the government's "cavalier disregard" for retailers after her Ten Minute Rule Bill on the use of fixed penalty notices for shop theft missed its second reading in the House of Commons.
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Opinion
A new focus on crime
Convenience Store editor David Rees explains how a crackdown on illegal tobacco sales could prevent the tragic consequences of shop theft.
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Features and analysis
Shoplifting penalties come under review
Shoplifters could face stricter penalties following a government review of the Penalty Notice for Disorder (PND) scheme.
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Features and analysis
Anti-crime protest gets TV publicity
Manchester store owner Shumaila Malik's campaign for government funding to help retailers protect themselves against crime is featured on national television today (June 12).
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News
PO's ATM error could trigger a cash-flow crisis
The Post Office and ATM supplier Hanco are working to resolve the misunderstanding over fees for supplying cash to free-to-use machines (Convenience Store, May 15).
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News
Jail sentence ends gang's crime spree
Members of a criminal gang which raided more than 20 isolated convenience stores carried on their crime spree despite receiving suspended sentences for previous convictions.
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News
POs must foot the bill for ATM error
The Post Office is under fire for demanding subpostmasters pay thousands of pounds in backdated charges for supplying cash to its free cash machines.
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Features and analysisPartnerships the way to beat crime
The Government is encouraging retailers to form partnerships with police and local authorities in a bid to reduce business crime.
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Blog
Tackling retail crime
Local partneships can establish an effective approach to crimes against shops, says James Lowman
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Features and analysis
Vandalised store rues shutter ruling
Southport retailers who were forced to remove their security shutters by the local council have had their store vandalised.
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News
Jail sentences for shoplifters to stay
Custodial sentences will continue to be a possible punishment for serial shoplifters, according to new guidelines published by the Sentencing Advisory Panel (SAP).
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News
Small firms fail to report crime
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.
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Features and analysis
New guidelines back jail for shoplifters
Shoplifters who target independent retailers will face harsher penalties according to new guidelines from the Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC)
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News
UK tops league for shoplifting
UK stores suffer bigger losses to retail theft than any other country in Europe, a new report has revealed.
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News
Tories study retail crime
The Conservative Party has launched a Commission to look at the problem of retail crime.
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Features and analysis
MP seeks support for Shoplifting Bill
Vale of York MP Anne McIntosh has tabled an Early Day Motion to promote support for her Shoplifting Bill
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Features and analysis
Credit crunch crimewave
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.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Friend or foe? Entrapment never used to be a police tactic
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...