Latest Crime & Security insight and analysis – Page 54
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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...
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Features and analysis
Lobby your MP for a 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.
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Opinion
The big deal: Retailers' need for support to prevent violent crime
Dave is doing what he can to prevent violent crime but he needs more support. The sad news about Gurmail Singh in Huddersfield is a chilling reminder to us all of the ever present threat to our livelihood and our lives.
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Features and analysis
Taking the lead on community crime
Aidan Fortune meets the CRA Zero Tolerance Award winners who saved their neighbourhood from drug pushers
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Features and analysis
Reporting crime is your best defence
Retailers have blamed a lack of police response for their unwillingness to report incidents of robbery and abuse.
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Features and analysis
Retailers must make sure every crime is reported
Store owners who are the target of violence, abuse and crime are being urged to contact their local police force to prevent the problem from escalating.
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Features and analysis
Newsagent to chair crime task force
Birmingham retailer Parminder Singh has been chosen to chair the National Business Crime Forum, which has been set up to explore ways to reduce levels of crime against businesses.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Give it the special treatment
Rano Patel, featured in my last column, said that from now on she would send her News International vouchers by recorded delivery to ensure she got credited for them.