Policy paper

Fighting retail crime: more action

The government's plan to further reduce retail crime, building on the Retail Crime Action Plan announced in October 2023.

From:
Home Office, The Rt Hon James Cleverly MP and The Rt Hon Chris Philp MP
Published
10 April 2024
This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

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This plan builds on the Retail Crime Action Plan with 5 themes to prevent retail crime:

  • creating a new offence of assaulting a retail worker
  • expanding the use of electronic monitoring for frequent shoplifters
  • using new technologies to prevent and detect retail crime
  • designing out crime, to reduce opportunities to steal and sell stolen goods
  • making it easier to report crime and share information between businesses and police

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Published 10 April 2024

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