All Crime articles – Page 52
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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...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Now the police are interested in the Halifax case
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...
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News
Co-op joins the war against knife crime
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...
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Features and analysis
Crime: Roundup - October 3 2008
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...
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Features and analysis
Attackers strike as police ignore call
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...
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News
Smuggling to rise in crime spree ahead
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...
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Features and analysis
Shoplifters to say sorry for stealing
Retailers are to receive apologies from youths who have stolen from their stores or committed a crime against them.
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Features and analysis
A stand against knife crime
An East London retailer has handed his entire stock of 300 lock knives to police in a stand against knife crime.
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Features and analysis
Police to harass yobs
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.
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Features and analysis
CCTV failing to cut crime
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.
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Features and analysis
Police to breathalyse young drinkers
Underage drinkers in an Essex town are to be breath-tested by police as part of a crackdown on anti-social behaviour.
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News
Criminals prime kids with forged notes
Money launderers in London are sending 12-year-olds into stores with fake £20 notes.
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News
Police home in on young drinkers
A police crackdown over the February half-term break resulted in the confiscation of more than 44,000 pints of alcohol from underage drinkers.
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News
Crime watch
Losses from retail crime are their highest for 10 years. How do our C-Store Champions cope with it?
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News
Scottish crime falls
Crime rates in cities across Scotland have fallen by a fifth since the reintroduction of bobbies on the beat.
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News
Festive crime wave ahead
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.