Shoplifting offences rise to highest level since records began: Store thefts jump by more than a...

Police-recorded data also revealed rises for robberies, gun crime and stabbings. Do you have photo or video evidence of shoplifting? Email rory.tingle@mailonline.co.ukShoplifting has risen to the highest level on record amid complaints the crime has been effectively 'decriminalised', new data revealed today.

Under 40 per cent of shoplifting reports were attended by the Met between April 2022 and April 2023, recent figures revealed. Separate data suggests a similar - and often worse - situation in the rest of the country, with forces sending out and officer for just one in five calls related to shoplifting.Today Rishi Sunak's spokesman said the increase in shoplifting was 'unacceptable', adding: 'We are absolutely clear we should take a zero tolerance approach to this crime.'

READ MORE: Moment shoplifter punches Tesco worker in car park after she's caught stealing four bottles of vodka 'The latter has risen by more than 100,000 offences, while the police have been dealing with the highest levels of theft from the person offences recorded in two decades. 'Despite repeated warnings from retailers, communities, and from Labour that action was needed to tackle soaring shoplifting and abuse affecting our town centres, these figures show that shoplifting has surged by further 37 per cent in the last 12 months alone to its highest ever recorded level, with ruinous consequences for our town centres and high streets.

The branch in Southville has also moved their shopping baskets away from the doors to stop thieves piling them up with shopping and running out. Separate figures that emerged earlier this month show convenience store thefts have soared to 5.6million from 1.1million in just one year. Mr Inglis said: 'It used to be a police officer would have come down, taken a statement and CCTV. But as they have cut back on resources we have to do our own statements now and upload the CCTV to a system and those cases are then reviewed.'I have been told by the police that the value of the stock has to be over £200 and if I don't know their name and don't have a clear shot of their face on CCTV then it won't get to court.

Paul Gerrard said the chain had invested in undercover security guards who perform citizen's arrests on thieves.

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