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The number of thefts at retail outlets is at staggeringly more than one every minute. That is one of the findings of the Retail Crime Survey 2011, which has charted how crime affects commercial concerns.

A teacher has hit back at “inaccurate” claims about the use of CCTV cameras in his school.

A notorious metal thief has been banned from scrap yards across England and Wales.

G4S has accepted responsibility for inadequately fulfilling its Olympic security contract and apologised for this failure. The under-fire firm was responding to the report compiled by Keith Vaz and his fellow MPs on the Olympic staffing scandal.

Michael Owen’s Twitter stream last Friday night concerned an unusual topic: no, not football but catching burglars.

A heavy fibreglass tank, which weighed about 180kg, was stolen from a depot between 12pm on Saturday, September 1 and 7.30am on Monday, September 4.

A man was given an eight-month sentence, suspended for a year, at Cambridge Crown Court on Monday last week in connection with two bogus charity shops he ran.

A thief passed himself off as a G4S security guard to steal £14,000 under the noses of a retail firm. G4S, the company in the middle of the Olympic security controversy, is who Poundland use for their cash collection.

A man accused of being involved in a raid said he was 100 miles away. Imran Mostafa, a civil engineering student, told a jury that at the time the robbery at a jewellers in Norfolk took place he was in London.

A 21-year-old explained why he was caught brandishing a fake firearm, claiming it was done for a practical joke on a friend.

Police have asked farmers, ramblers and those using the countryside to be “vigilant” for suspicious activity after many livestock

Send in the marines – a cry usually heard in a war film – was instead issued in order to fix undersea cable damage caused by theft.