Met launches dedicated teams to tackle shoplifting as rates spike – South London News

Met launches dedicated teams to tackle shoplifting as rates spike – South London News

The Metropolitan Police has have joined up with food banks and community groups across South London to speak to residents about a new scheme to tackle shoplifting. Officers and volunteers from Brixton... Read more »
Record breaking 999 calls for shoplifting   – London Business News

Record breaking 999 calls for shoplifting   – London Business News

According to the information obtained by Lib Dem Mayoral Candidate, Rob Blackie, there have been 23,881 calls to the Met Police so far this year – an increase of 49% compared with... Read more »
London shopowners lock doors as shoplifting epidemic builds

London shopowners lock doors as shoplifting epidemic builds

Inside a menswear boutique in an affluent west London neighbourhood, shoppers admire madras shirts and slim-cut jeans under the watchful gaze of the manager. LA Menswear, just off Chiswick High Road, is... Read more »
All-female gang terrorised London for 200 years robbing and shoplifting to fund lavish lifestyles

All-female gang terrorised London for 200 years robbing and shoplifting to fund lavish lifestyles

Gangsters and mobsters are commonly immortalised in fashionable tradition and regarded again on with a kind of twisted fascination. From the Peaky Blinders to the Kray Twins, these hard-man figures are romanticised... Read more »
Intense loneliness, suicides and shoplifting to survive - the heartbreaking realities of lockdown on one of London's poorest estates

Intense loneliness, suicides and shoplifting to survive – the heartbreaking realities of lockdown on one of London’s poorest estates

The coronavirus pandemic has shed a lightweight on inequality in Britain. It has disproportionately affected the poorest individuals and Black and Asian communities. Even although the Government nonetheless says it is best... Read more »
East London teacher banned after living with a sex offender and shoplifting from Tesco

East London teacher banned after living with a sex offender and shoplifting from Tesco

A Tower Hamlets teacher has been banned from working with children in the classroom. Fahmida Aziz, who taught pupils at Bigland Green Primary School, in Shadwell, did not tell her employers that... Read more »