Met Police attend fewer than half of shoplifting reports in London
by Noah Vickers
Dec 15, 2023
3 minutes
Fewer than half of shoplifting reports in London are being attended to by the police, new data has shown.
Met Police statistics show that between April 2022 and April 2023, only 38 per cent of shoplifting-related calls were attended by officers.
Caroline Pidgeon, a Liberal Democrat on the London Assembly, said the figures demonstrate the need for further Government action in tackling “the organised criminal gangs that operate shoplifting rings”.
A Home Office spokesman said that the Government has succeeded since
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