{"id":90860,"date":"2026-06-18T07:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90860"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:48:33","slug":"just-100-shoplifters-to-blame-for-thousands-of-thefts-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/18\/just-100-shoplifters-to-blame-for-thousands-of-thefts-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Just 100 shoplifters to blame for thousands of thefts in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA25UpB8.img?w=768&h=512&m=6&x=244&y=73&s=559&d=230\" alt=\"Industry figures including, left to right, Mr Twist, Helen Dickinson, chief executive of BRC, and Chris Brook-Carter, chief executive of Retail Trust, have called for tougher sanctions on repeat offenders - Ben Montgomery for The Telegraph\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Police chiefs have demanded ministers impose tougher sanctions on\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/08\/25\/inside-britains-shoplifting-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">prolific shoplifters<\/a>, as it emerged just 100 criminals were responsible for more than 4,000 shop thefts in the past two years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/just-100-shoplifters-to-blame-for-thousands-of-thefts-in-london\/ar-AA25Ukn0?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a317e0d12fb4f32adca5c6f36ea66e8&cvpid=3c7ca096832648da8a85e4f3c2dc6c7d&ei=30\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Police chiefs have demanded ministers impose tougher sanctions on\u00a0prolific shoplifters, as it emerged just 100 criminals were responsible for more than 4,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/shoplifting.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90861,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90860\/revisions\/90861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}