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24/10/2025

Shoplifter caught on CCTV swiping goods from Co-op and Sainsbury's jailed

He stole £250 of goods over four days

24/10/2025

Violence towards staff and security, theft from retail outlets are at record highs across the United Kingdom, making the places we live, shop and work feel unsafe.

In the UK over 455 retail staff are assaulted or subjected to abuse every single day whilst over 200 incidents of theft are reported and recorded every hour.

Retail crime is costing retailers increasing amounts of money every year, amounting to an average of £2.2 billion.
This amount includes money directly lost through crime along with what retailers are spending on loss prevention in the last year, much of this cost is recovered by increasing the price of the goods we buy.

23/10/2025

News & Public Appeals!
When you become a valued retail member of Catch a Thief UK and utilise our products, solutions and services we will:

Help you significantly reduce Theft and Anti-Social Behaviour in your retail outlets.

Help you save time, money and stock loss, also helping to keep your customers and staff feel safe in the places they work and shop.

Store all your incidents on our secure servers and can recall any incident at any time.

Make Public Appeals via our online platforms.

Serve banning/ trespass notices, helping with civil recovery and private criminal prosecutions.

Supply your retail business with our powerful warning signs that will deter theft and let any suspects know of our presence and intentions are in your store.

As well as producing Public Appeals to our growing UK audience and supplying your retail businesses with our powerful warning signs, we also report all your incidents directly to the Police keeping you updated of all investigations, "no more lengthy calls to 101".

We can provide your retail businesses with a wide range of the very latest crime fighting technologies such as; Facial Recognition, Artificial Intelligence that can detect theft in real time, Audio Warning Announcement Systems, Home Office approved Body Worn Video and Audio Cameras, Alarm Tagging, CCTV and PPE.

On top of all the above we can provide your retail businesses with our bespoke Security Officer Guarding service, Remote CCTV Monitoring, Key Holding services and more....

Email us today for a no obligation free service quote and one of our expert team members would be happy to help!

22/10/2025

At Catch a Thief UK, we’re proud to be at the forefront of protecting hundreds of family-run petrol stations and local businesses throughout the United Kingdom. In partnership with Pay My Fuel we have helped numerous forecourt operators — including industry leaders like The Motor Fuel Group (MFG) and Morrisons petrol stations — detect, prevent, and recover losses from fuel theft and drive-offs.

Our Mission and Partnership

Fuel theft and unpaid fuel incidents are a growing concern across the UK. We specialise in tackling these challenges head-on, combining cutting-edge technology with community-driven vigilance. Through our collaboration with Pay My Fuel.com, we have created a seamless system to identify offenders and recover lost revenue....

22/10/2025

Two suspected thieves named after Skegness crime spree

Cash was stolen from Big Kids Karting, Beachlands and Bottons Pleasure Beach

22/10/2025

Shoplifting gang filled secret room full of £50,000-worth of games consoles

A secret backroom in a London shop unearthed thousands of stolen phones and gaming consoles in what is the police's largest ever crackdown on shoplifters.

21/10/2025

Met Police raid more than 120 shops suspected of selling stolen goods in shoplifting crackdown

Officers arrested 32 people and seized thousands of items worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

21/10/2025

Man who stole £31k of wine 'to drink' given 2 weeks to return stash by judge

A tuk-tuk driver who stole £31,000 of fine wine and champagne from three high-end restaurants has been given the chance to return the goods before he is sentenced

21/10/2025

🕵️‍♂️ Operation Machinize: The Hidden Crime Behind the High Street

🚨 Hundreds of barbershops, v**e stores, and car washes across the UK have been raided as part of Operation Machinize, a major National Crime Agency (NCA) crackdown on money laundering, modern slavery, and organised crime hiding in plain sight.

💈 What looked like everyday businesses were being used as fronts to clean criminal cash — with millions of pounds in frozen accounts, illegal goods seized, and almost 100 people rescued from exploitative conditions.

💬 “If criminals can’t move their money, they can’t move their operations,” said one senior investigator.

📊 The operation uncovered:

£1 million in criminal funds frozen

35 arrests across the UK

Thousands of illegal v**es, counterfeit ci******es, and cash seized

Two cannabis farms and multiple cases of human trafficking exposed

👁️ The lesson? Organised crime isn’t just in dark corners — it’s on your local high street.
If you notice shops with suspicious activity, cash-only trading, or workers living on-site, you can report it anonymously through Crimestoppers (0800 555 111) or via [email protected]

⚠️ Together, we can protect our communities and cut off the hidden economy funding organised crime.

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17/10/2025

Shoplifter was a 'persistent blight' on Nottingham stores including West Bridgford Co-op

After receiving a ban from multiple stores, Jack Newcombe, 35, flouted his court order to continue his shoplifting spree

17/10/2025

Police name first shoplifters to wear electronic tag under new scheme

Sussex Police says the scheme is intended to ‘tackle repeat offenders’

15/10/2025

Tesco, Morrisons, One Stop and Co-op knifepoint robber jailed

Patryk Slepowronski went on a knifepoint robbery spree across Staffordshire and Derbyshire before leaving a clue at a shop in Hixon