Over 800 shop and service staff are assaulted everyday.
There's no way on earth I would tackle someone if they were shoplifting. Would you?
Cases of shoplifting have doubled over the last six years.
Nah,Tesco,Asda etc can fek off. Employ more security would be my answer.
Asking the public to become vigilantes and put themselves at risk is not good.

Funny these Tories. Sack loads of police, keep wages low, expect us to work longer and offer pathetic pensions now want us to do the Police's job for them well done to you rats that gave these any power

Open to lawsuits if you harm someone..tackle hard?

Some months back a friend of mine intervened when someone ran out of Tesco with a full trolley of electrical goods. The friend was very proud and full of the gung ho spirit having stopped a large theft occuring. This friend is an ardent Tory and a Daily Mail reader.
I told the friend he may need to watch his back now if this shoplifter has family and friends or ends up doing time because of his have a go hero bollox.

seen a couple of sections on ITV 6 o'clock news about how the police don't even bother to show up to reported organised group shop lifting attacks in branches of Co-op and regular old thefts in John Lewis.

the Tories really are just pulling dumb ideas out of their arses to inversely confirm there is an issue with their stewardship of the country.

even stores loss prevention has to wait until someone has left the premises to confirm it as a theft. are they expecting the shop lifter not to fight back in the car park when they're so close to a clean getaway ?

It's an incredible rise in shoplifting over the last six years though don't you think? If figures are to be believed that is.

I wouldn't be able to tell. I was always shocked at the level of shop lifting from the builders merchants I used to work at.

Have a friend who is a barman,his boss the landlady steals lots and lots of stuff constantly..from beer to wine to posh beer glasses.
Stealing seems to be endemic in some professions.

Where are all people that accused me of persecuting the poor for shoplifting a shopping cart full of beef? It was always a small form of organized crime because they rarely consumed the the beef, it was usually sold to intoxicated people at drinking establishments.
Now it is all sold on Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist.

Trying to imagine someone doing a citizen's arrest on me. Not that I shoplift. I don't. No one is allowed to touch me though so. Arrest me. Try it. lol