All Crime articles – Page 59
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Features and analysis
Anti-crime protest gets TV publicity
Manchester store owner Shumaila Malik's campaign for government funding to help retailers protect themselves against crime is featured on national television today (June 12).
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Features and analysis
Shoplifting penalties come under review
Shoplifters could face stricter penalties following a government review of the Penalty Notice for Disorder (PND) scheme.
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News
PO's ATM error could trigger a cash-flow crisis
The Post Office and ATM supplier Hanco are working to resolve the misunderstanding over fees for supplying cash to free-to-use machines (Convenience Store, May 15).
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News
POs must foot the bill for ATM error
The Post Office is under fire for demanding subpostmasters pay thousands of pounds in backdated charges for supplying cash to its free cash machines.
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News
Jail sentence ends gang's crime spree
Members of a criminal gang which raided more than 20 isolated convenience stores carried on their crime spree despite receiving suspended sentences for previous convictions.
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Features and analysisPartnerships the way to beat crime
The Government is encouraging retailers to form partnerships with police and local authorities in a bid to reduce business crime.
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Blog
Tackling retail crime
Local partneships can establish an effective approach to crimes against shops, says James Lowman
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Features and analysis
Vandalised store rues shutter ruling
Southport retailers who were forced to remove their security shutters by the local council have had their store vandalised.
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News
Jail sentences for shoplifters to stay
Custodial sentences will continue to be a possible punishment for serial shoplifters, according to new guidelines published by the Sentencing Advisory Panel (SAP).
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News
Small firms fail to report crime
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has found that 64% of small businesses were victims of crime over the past year but that less than half of incidents were reported to the police.
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Features and analysis
New guidelines back jail for shoplifters
Shoplifters who target independent retailers will face harsher penalties according to new guidelines from the Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC)
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News
Tories study retail crime
The Conservative Party has launched a Commission to look at the problem of retail crime.
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News
UK tops league for shoplifting
UK stores suffer bigger losses to retail theft than any other country in Europe, a new report has revealed.
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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: 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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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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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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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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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...