All Crime articles – Page 39

  • 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.

  • Features and analysis

    Police to breathalyse young drinkers

    2008-05-16T00:00:00Z

    Underage drinkers in an Essex town are to be breath-tested by police as part of a crackdown on anti-social behaviour.

  • News

    Criminals prime kids with forged notes

    2008-05-02T00:00:00Z

    Money launderers in London are sending 12-year-olds into stores with fake £20 notes.

  • News

    Police home in on young drinkers

    2008-04-18T00:00:00Z

    A police crackdown over the February half-term break resulted in the confiscation of more than 44,000 pints of alcohol from underage drinkers.

  • News

    Crime watch

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Losses from retail crime are their highest for 10 years. How do our C-Store Champions cope with it?

  • News

    Scottish crime falls

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Crime rates in cities across Scotland have fallen by a fifth since the reintroduction of bobbies on the beat.

  • News

    Big issues for 2008 - Crime

    2008-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Frustrated retailers demand a tougher stance on crime

  • News

    Festive crime wave ahead

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Retailers should be bracing themselves for a surge in crime as new research by Checkpoint Systems predicts that £431.2m-worth of stock will be stolen in the run up to Christmas.

  • Features and analysis

    Crackdown sees 727 shoplifters arrested

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    A successful radio link scheme in the Sunderland area has helped police to arrest 727 shoplifters in just five months.

  • News

    Government vows to act on crime

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Crime, pensions and training were among the areas to be addressed in the government's legislative agenda for the coming year, revealed in the annual Queen's Speech.

  • Features and analysis

    Crime machines

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Rich Airey explores the importance of CCTV and modern security technology in today's c-store environment