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Shoplifting: Govt has let epidemic get out of control

25 Apr 2024

EMBARGO: Immediate Release

Responding to the latest figures showing that shoplifting has hit its highest level in over 20 years, LiberalDemocrat Home Affairs spokesperson, Alistair Carmichael MP said:

"This government has allowed the shoplifting epidemic to get out of control.

"Shopkeepers are being abandoned while criminals are allowed to act with impunity.

"Britain has gone from being a nation of shopkeepers to one plagued by shoplifters. 

"Ministers must take urgent action to protect our shops and high streets.

"That means a return to proper community policing, which has been decimated for too long under this government."

ENDS

 

 

 

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