{"id":772071,"date":"2026-09-16T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772071\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:02:11","slug":"englands-shoplifting-issue-and-the-prolific-suspects-fuelling-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772071\/","title":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s shoplifting issue and the prolific suspects fuelling it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One example of this approach is a new crime intelligence platform named Auror, which allows retailers to report directly to the police to tackle prolific shoplifting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hertfordshire Constabulary, one of three forces now using Auror, was able to arrest two shoplifters at a retail park in Stevenage thanks to the tool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The men were linked to dozens of thefts from Boots stores across the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Similar information sharing is key to the work of Partnerships Against Business Crime in Staffordshire, which provides updates on known offenders to registered retailers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul Greenhough, who manages the scheme, said: &#8220;I think unfortunately it has become partly accepted that stores are going to lose things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For us, it&#8217;s about saying, &#8216;No, that&#8217;s not acceptable &#8211; we need to do something about it&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From a government perspective, Jones said a slight year-on-year drop in recorded shoplifting crimes indicated the country had &#8220;turned that corner&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she added: &#8220;We all know there is a lot further that we need to go and a lot more we need to do.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additional reporting by Clodagh Stenson, Nicola Rees, Lee Bottomley and Tony Fisher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One example of this approach is a new crime intelligence platform named Auror, which allows retailers to report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}