Met Police recover stolen goods and close 11 shops in retail crime crackdown
The Metropolitan Police recovered tens of thousands of pounds of stolen goods, made 42 arrests and closed 11 shops during a two-week crackdown on retail crime.
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The Metropolitan Police have recovered tens of thousands of pounds worth of stolen goods and closed 11 shops during a two-week crackdown on the resale of stolen products. The operation led to 42 arrests, and officers raided or visited 400 places over the period.
Items most frequently taken included food, electrics and beauty products. Some goods had been marked with a forensic solution that officers could detect with a UV light. The force said good CCTV and information-sharing platforms used by major stores helped detection.
The Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said the operation had led to multiple arrests and closure orders for 11 shops. The force highlighted an example where 1,000 pounds worth of meat stolen from Sainsbury's, Co-op and Iceland was found in a high street shop. The Deputy Commissioner said this made it really tough for the next shop along trying to run its business lawfully, and said the arrests and closures would continue.
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| Officers raided or visited 400 places during the operation. | |
| The Metropolitan Police recovered tens of thousands of pounds of stolen goods during a two-week operation targeting the resale of stolen products. | |
| The operation led to 42 arrests and the closure of 11 shops. | |
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Sky News gave the retail crime story a short, factual segment within a wider bulletin that also carried unrelated Barclays and Ukraine items. It focused on the scale of the police operation, the use of forensic marking and CCTV, the 42 arrests and 11 closures, and the effect on lawful high street businesses. It did not name the Deputy Commissioner.
- “Tens of thousands of pounds worth of goods have been recovered by the Metropolitan Police during a two-week clampdown on the resale of stolen products.”
- “Great CCTV makes a big difference to what we can detect, but also major stores are using platforms which connect information.”
- “Those 42 arrests, we've closed 11 of those places down over the last weeks and we're going to carry on doing that.”
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