Targeting shops buying and reselling stolen goods across…
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Targeting shops buying and reselling stolen goods across London
You’ll often hear about shoplifting in London, but there’s another part of the problem that gets less attention: what happens to stolen goods afterwards.
The Met has heard from independent retailers who say they’re being undercut by businesses selling suspected stolen goods cheaply. Our intelligence also suggests some prolific shoplifters are stealing specific products to order because they know there is a market for them.
If there’s somewhere to sell stolen goods, there’s an incentive to steal them. So we are targeting both sides: the people stealing and the businesses suspected of buying and reselling what they steal.
Over the past two weeks, officers visited around 400 shops suspected of buying and reselling stolen goods. That resulted in 42 arrests, 11 closure notices and tens of thousands of pounds worth of suspected stolen goods being seized.
In Hounslow, officers seized 300 suspected stolen phones and £15,000 in cash from one shop. In Brixton, dozens of suspected stolen phones were recovered and more than £5,000 in cash were seized from another.
We’re also working with retailers and Trading Standards to identify businesses suspected of handling stolen goods, including using forensic marking to help trace recovered products back to the shops they were stolen from.
Making it harder to sell stolen goods is an important part of making it less attractive to steal them.
Read the press release here: https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-seizes-tens-of-thousands-of-pounds-worth-of-stolen-goods-in-retail-crime-crackdown-514137
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You’ll often hear about shoplifting in London, but there’s another part of the problem that gets less attention: what happens to stolen goods afterwards.
The Met has heard from independent retailers who say they’re being undercut by businesses selling suspected stolen goods cheaply. Our intelligence also suggests some prolific shoplifters are stealing specific products to order because they know there is a market for them.
If there’s somewhere to sell stolen goods, there’s an incentive to steal them. So we are targeting both sides: the people stealing and the businesses suspected of buying and reselling what they steal.
Over the past two weeks, officers visited around 400 shops suspected of buying and reselling stolen goods. That resulted in 42 arrests, 11 closure notices and tens of thousands of pounds worth of suspected stolen goods being seized.
In Hounslow, officers seized 300 suspected stolen phones and £15,000 in cash from one shop. In Brixton, dozens of suspected stolen phones were recovered and more than £5,000 in cash were seized from another.
We’re also working with retailers and Trading Standards to identify businesses suspected of handling stolen goods, including using forensic marking to help trace recovered products back to the shops they were stolen from.
Making it harder to sell stolen goods is an important part of making it less attractive to steal them.
Read the press release here: https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-seizes-tens-of-thousands-of-pounds-worth-of-stolen-goods-in-retail-crime-crackdown-514137
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