That figure – reported by Detective Superintendent James Taylor, head of UK serious organized acquisitive crime unit Opal – included a rise in small-scale thefts of solar panels as rising ...

Statistics provided to Haddington and District Community Council ahead of its monthly meeting show that 267 calls were made to police in the area throughout the month of January. That translated into ...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has appeared to suggest a 50% rise in shoplifting in the capital is “because we have a lot of shops”. New figures show 80,041 shoplifting offences were recorded in London in ...

POLICE have arrested a woman after a series of alleged shopliftings from South Ayrshire businesses. A 45-year-old female was traced and charged in connection with acquisitive crime, according to ...

“What the LSE report showed - without in any way excusing criminality - is that as the cost of living crisis gets worse, acquisitive crime is going to go up, and has gone up,” said Sir Sadiq. “[There ...