All Crime articles – Page 43

  • Features and analysis

    Crime

    2005-09-23T00:00:00Z

    Police have praised the actions of a 75-year-old woman from West Yorkshire who refused to be intimidated by a knife-wielding robber.

  • Features and analysis

    Crime

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    * A Derby-based convenience store manager-owner was told he would be killed unless he handed over cash from his store’s till.

  • News

    Sainsbury’s stores unite against crime

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury’s at Jacksons and Sainsbury’s at Bells are to pool their security resources to combat crime across their stores and Sainsbury’s Locals in the Midlands and North East.

  • Features and analysis

    Crime

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    A teenage c-store worker in Leicestershire was forced to the ground and grabbed around the neck during an attempted robbery.

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Here’s a scam masquerading as a worthy police campaign.

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    This is the old familiar drugs awareness publication aimed at schools. Peter Smith, who runs Sutton Benger Post Office near Chippenham in Wiltshire, was approached a year or so ago by a rep selling space on behalf of Wiltshire Police for a booklet to be circulated to schools to prevent ...

  • Features and analysis

    NFRN call for more action on crime

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    The National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN) has called on the government to do more to protect small businesses after a survey showed that 28% of small stores had suffered at least one crime.

  • Features and analysis

    Shoplifters more likely to be male

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Men are more likely than women to shoplift and put their hand in the till, according to new research.

  • Features and analysis

    Crime

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    Staff at a Warwickshire c-store had to be rescued by police after they were left locked in a storeroom overnight by armed robbers.

  • Features and analysis

    Crime toll hits small businesses

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has repeated its call to the government to make business crime a key performance indicator for police, after a new report found that 58% of small businesses fall victim to criminal activity each year.

  • Features and analysis

    New focus on retail crime

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Home Office minister Hazel Blears has backed C-Store’s Zero Tolerance anti-crime campaign.

  • Features and analysis

    Co-op police unit trial fits the bill

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    The number of Co-operative Group c-stores with integrated police offices could increase after the success of the first one, in south-east London.

  • Features and analysis

    ATMs come clean

    2005-07-15T00:00:00Z

    Shoppers using fee-charging ATMs in c-stores will be told exactly how much they are being charged under new rules that have come into force.

  • Features and analysis

    Report questions crime schemes

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Retailers have called on the government to re-think its policy over Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) after a new report said it was not clear how much they contributed to a reduction in crime.

  • Features and analysis

    Crime

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    A Welsh c-store manager has faced down an armed robber, forcing him to flee empty-handed.

  • Features and analysis

    Police close in on ram raid gangs

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Police in East Anglia are on the trail of travelling gangs, who they suspect are behind the spate of ram raids on over 100 c-stores since August last year.

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: It’s criminal. You try your best and you wind up in court.

    2005-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Byron Jackson first emailed me in February. He and his wife Nadette, who run a Spar store in South Wales, were about to be prosecuted and were totally shell-shocked.

  • Features and analysis

    Crime

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    A brave c-store owner from South London fought off a pistol-wielding robber by bashing him over the head with his mug.

  • Features and analysis

    Uncovering crime

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Mark Wingett reports on retailers’ attitudes towards people wearing hats, caps and hooded tops in their stores

  • News

    Serving notice on crime

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Mark Wingett reports on a retailer who’s on a mission to combat crime across two local communities

  • Features and analysis

    Report Every Crime, Every Time

    2005-05-20T00:00:00Z

    A ‘Report Every Crime, Every Time!’ campaign has been launched by the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) in conjunction with C-Store’s sister publication Scottish Local Retailer (SLR).