Staff have reportedly faced abusive and nasty behaviour as thugs help themselves to goods, with one shop losing around £200 per day from nicked goods.
Greggs staff have been forced to wear panic buttons to stop violent thieves who steal sausage rolls and doughnuts.
"And I had to press my panic button the other week when a man came in and swept up all the sandwiches and threw the metal tray on the floor. They don’t just take – they actually choose what they want and then walk past the window sarcastically waving at you.” Police work around the clock to catch criminals but fight a losing battle with lags reoffending the moment they’re released. Locating them is also a challenge – with many postcode-hopping to avoid detection.
Shocking statistics reveal shoplifting offences in England and Wales rocketed in the last year. Some 365,164 thefts were recorded by police in the year to June, up 25% on the previous 12 months. The rise has been much higher in the north east. Chief Inspector Zoë Kelsey, who heads up the town’s neighbourhood cops, said: “We speak to shop owners on a daily basis who are beyond sick and tired. They’re losing thousands of pounds and there’s very little they can do to stop it. The Shell garage across the road is always hit hard. The majority steal to fund their drug habits.”
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