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  2. Police need to do more to stop theft - shopkeepers

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    Last year, a House of Lords inquiry found there were more than 443,000 incidents of shop theft recorded by police in England and Wales in the year to March 2024 – the highest ever since records ...

  3. Shoplifting soars in England and Wales by staggering amount - AOL

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    Theft also reached an all-time high with more than 20 million incidents – or over 55,000 a day – costing retailers £2.2bn, up from £1.8bn the previous year.

  4. Making off without payment - Wikipedia

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    Making off without payment is a statutory offence in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Hong Kong.It was first introduced on the recommendation of the Criminal Law Revision Committee and is intended to protect legitimate business concerns and applies where goods are supplied or a service is performed on the basis that payment will be made there and then.

  5. Shoplifting - Wikipedia

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    Shoplifting (also known as shop theft, shop fraud, retail theft, or retail fraud) is the theft of goods from a retail establishment during business hours. The terms shoplifting and shoplifter are not usually defined in law, and generally fall under larceny .

  6. Theft Act 1968 - Wikipedia

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    This section creates the offence of theft.This definition is supplemented by sections 2 to 6. The definition of theft under the Theft Act 1968 is: A person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and "thief" and "steal" shall be construed accordingly.

  7. Theft Act 1978 - Wikipedia

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    The Theft Act 1978 [1] (c. 31) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It supplemented the earlier deception offences contained in sections 15 and 16 of the Theft Act 1968 by reforming some aspects of those offences and adding new provisions.

  8. List of English criminal offences - Wikipedia

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    Offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the Intoxicating Substances (Supply) Act 1985, the Licensing Act 2003, section 7 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and other provisions relating to tobacco, and the Drug Trafficking Act 1994.

  9. West Midlands no longer has top knife crime rate

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    The number of shop theft offences it solved had doubled, it added. Robbery had reduced by 8%, and vehicle crime, serious youth violence, and domestic abuse went down by 11%, the force pointed out ...