Retailers urge police to take tougher action on shoplifting
Retailers have called for tougher police action on shoplifting after it was revealed that only 431 fines were issued for the offence in a year. Figures from the Ministry of Justice show that, in the year to March 2014, 19,419 fines were handed out for retail theft under £100. This decreased year on year to 415 in the year to March 2023, and rose slightly to 431 in the year […]