All Crime articles – Page 22
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Analysis & FeaturesIs violence against UK shopworkers getting worse in the pandemic?
Retail staff have reported being verbally and physically attacked when enforcing social distancing measures and buying limits on products
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NewsGovernment sets out plans to crack down on shopworker abuse
Industry bodies are disappointed no changes to the law have been proposed in the government’s plans
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NewsCentral England Co-op and ACS call for action on violence against shop workers
The mutual retailer, which has more than 260 stores across 16 counties, is joining forces with co-operatives in the UK calling on the government to introduce new legislation to better protect key workers
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NewsCo-op slams government inaction over shopworker abuse
Co-op is calling on the government to act urgently to halt a potential store crime epidemic
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NewsQuarter of supermarket staff have experienced abuse during coronavirus outbreak
The research, which included Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, Lidl and Aldi stores found that experience of abuse was prevalent across all of the retailers surveyed
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NewsCentral England Co-op reports rise in shoppers threatening to spit and cough at staff
Central England Co-op called the rise in offences ‘totally unacceptable’
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NewsViolence and abuse against retail workers on the rise, says BRC
The BRC, ACS, CRA and Usdaw have all called on the government to make violence against retail workers a specific criminal offence
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NewsLawrence Hunt Spar doubles spirits sales with shop floor merchandising move
The business has been cautiously trialling spirits on the shop floor in 12 of its 25 stores for 12 months
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NewsCo-op calls on government for better shopworker protections against abuse
Co-op has invested more than £70m in colleague safety, including the installation of remote-monitored CCTV
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NewsNisa store in Sale reopens within hours of ram-raid attack
Ram-raiders targeted Hamant Patel’s Manor Avenue, Sale, shop in the early hours of Saturday 14 September
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NewsCo-op Food CEO calls for tougher penalties over shop worker assaults
Quarterly figures from the Co-op show that 2,500 incidents of abuse were made against employees
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NewsIceland turns to locked spirit boxes in battle against booze theft
They are currently in 95 Iceland and Food Warehouse stores
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NewsRetailers urge more knife crime protection as incidents rise
The BRC survey showed 115 retail employees were attacked on average every day
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NewsCo-op deploys 'fog cannons' to fight retail crime
A dense fog obscures a criminal’s vision and leaves a residue
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Comment & OpinionIt's time for all retailers to take action on knife crime
Poundland took kitchen knives off sale in October 2018, says retail director Austin Cooke. Other retailers now need to play their part
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NewsPoundland writes to police to ask for knife sale ban backing
The discounter, which banned knife sales last autumn, has written to the National Police Chiefs’ Council for support in its campaign
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Comment & OpinionWe must all take a stand against abusive crimes on retail workers
Dealing with assaults against staff will take collaboration across retailers, the police and government, says Co-op retail CEO Jo Whitfield
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NewsOnline crime costing retailers £100m a year, says BRC report
The BRC said there was an urgent need for a policy debate on the state of digital policing
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NewsHome Office reassures independent retailers over policing
The Home Office has reassured independent retailers they will remain a policing priority…
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Comment & OpinionRetailers must be proactive in fighting food fraud
The informality in many grocery supply chains is the perfect breeding ground for food fraud, say forensic accounting experts Professor Lisa Jack and Jim Gee, partner, PKF Littlejohn LLP.