All Crime articles – Page 52
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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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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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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
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.
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Features and analysis
Police gaffe puts FPNs in the spotlight
Fixed penalty notices (FPNs) for shoplifting have come under fire again after it was revealed that several serial offenders in the Manchester area have been given more than one notice.
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Features and analysis
Decision time on grants to fight crime
Home Office administrators are in the final stages of allocating grants to the successful recipients of its scheme to help tackle small business crime.
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Features and analysis
Thefts could see stores abandon ATMs
Retailers in Northern ireland say they may be forced to get rid of their cash machines if insurance costs rise following a spate of attempted thefts.
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Features and analysis
Crime victim? Here’s 10p for your trouble
A convenience store owner in Durham won't be retiring any time soon after receiving shoplifting compensation so low that it's not worth his while cashing the cheque.
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Features and analysis
Deadline for crimefighting grants extended
The deadline for partnership grants for retailers under the Retail Crime Action Plan (RCAP) has been extended until November 6, 2009
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Features and analysis
Feeling the pinch: how shoplifting is hurting your business
No matter what part of the country your store is in, shoplifting is an issue that cannot be ignored, and the problem is getting worse.
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Features and analysis
Tories’ 10 steps to cut retail crime
A Conservative Party think tank has proposed 10 measures to cut retail crime and break the "circle of apathy" that exists between retailers and the police and prevents crimes such as shoplifting and abuse of staff from being reported. A...
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Features and analysis
From dusk till dawn: fighting crime on the night shift
Whatever the time of day, c-store staff face the prospect of verbal or physical abuse from customers, but this threat is magnified come nightfall. Those who work night shifts in 24-hour stores have to contend with drunken revellers spilling out of...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: These are mistakes, not crimes
How far are some local authorities prepared to go to set up soft-target stings?
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News
Post Office pays the price for ATM error
The Post Office has climbed down over its demand for hundreds of thousands of pounds in backdated charges from retailers for supplying cash to their free Hanco ATM machines.
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Features and analysis
Police slammed for ‘easy option’ fines
The effectiveness of Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) for shoplifting has been called into question again after an allegation of inappropriate use of the on-the-spot fines by the police.
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Features and analysis
Straw tightens up shop crime penalties
Tougher new penalties against shoplifters have been welcomed by the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).
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Features and analysis
High streets hit by credit crunch crime
The past year has seen an alarming increase in 'credit crunch crimes' such as shoplifting, two major new surveys have found.