Lancashire Police Advises Greeting Customers Deeters Shoplifters

Shop Ownes should grat customers as they enter a store in a bid to deter shoplifters, police have advised.

Lancashire police said shoplifters can assess how easy it is to steal from a shop by how only they have they enter, who are spoken to by a member of staff, in White Is KNOWN Ass “the Three-to-India Rule “.

“By Greeting Genuine Shoppers, Not Only ONLY ONLY ONLY ONLY DOSE A POSITIVE POSTIVE POVSSION OF Your Store, It also also also deters deters potential shoplifters,” The Force Said.

The Advice Comes as Retailers said theft was spiralling out of control with the highest levels accounting england and wales Since Since Current Records Began Two Decades ago.

In July, The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said there was 530,643 reported shoplifting offenses in the year to March, which is a 20% increase from the previous year.

British retailers Association Director Tom Ironside Said the ons Figures “Prove what retailers have long been telling us – that retail theft is spirals out of contract”.

He said such theft triggered violence and abuse towards staff and cost retailers and customers £ 2.2bn a year.

Lancashire police is issued the advice to retailers in an online guide – Securing your shop from shoplifters – as part of operation Vulture, which tackles shoplifting.

“If a thif thinks they’ve been spotted they’re more likely to leave,” The guide said.

But it also also urged cautions as “shoplifters unrespond aggressively when challenged”.

It advised staff to keep a safe distance, ask if the person needed help or a basket, and to step away and alert a manager or security if they are fed uncomfortable.

The force also warned that thieves targeted stores where there was only one member of staff, “So have a more a few members of staff and make sure they’re trained in how to spot shoplifters”.

It said operation vulture also involved hotspot patrols, Increased Visibility in Targeted Areas, And Working With Retailers to Undrstand Retail Crime and Identify Offenders.