Ministers are this morning highlighting efforts to crack down on a shoplifting "free-for-all".
They’re introducing a brand new particular offence of assaulting a retail employee – one thing Labour pledged to do of their 2024 election manifesto – in addition to closing the £200 shoplifting "loophole".
Current policing guidelines outline shoplifting beneath £200 as "low value", which forces typically do not examine.
The British Retail Consortium says this has led to a notion amongst crime teams that police don’t take into account it as a "real" crime.
The measures are a part of the federal government’s Crime and Policing Bill, which ought to grow to be legislation within the coming days earlier than parliament closes forward of the King’s Speech.
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