Tomorrow the House of Lords Justice
and Home Affairs Committee will be holding its second and third oral evidence sessions for
its short inquiry into shoplifting, launched in
May.
The sessions will take place on
Tuesday 3 September at
10:30am and can be
followed live on Parliament TV.
Giving evidence at
10:30am
will
be:
Questions the committee is likely to
ask include:
-
What is the difference between 'shop
theft' and 'shoplifting'?
-
What is the relative contribution of
organised retail crime on shop theft and how is it
manifested?
-
What is the impact of shoplifting on
the Co-op and what recent trends have been
observed
-
How effective is the Pegasus
Partnership and can it help retailers in a way that existing
partnerships do not?
-
How does facial recognition
technology help to tackle shoplifting and what are the risks
involved?
-
Do policing and business
partnerships have public buy-in, and is it important that they
do?
Giving evidence at
11:40am
will be:
-
Sophie
Jordan, Manager at
National Association of Business Crime
Partnerships
-
James
Lowman, Chief
Executive at Association of Convenience
Stores
-
Adam
Ratcliffe,
Operations Director at Safer Business Network
CIC
Questions the committee is likely to
ask include:
-
What is the impact of shoplifting on
smaller retailers?
-
What are the most effective
strategies to combat shoplifting by prolific offenders and
organised crime groups from a business and policing
perspective?
-
How do Business Crime Reduction
Partnerships work?
-
Does Pegasus have an impact on
businesses not involved as partners of the
scheme?
-
How does facial recognition
technology help to tackle shoplifting and what are the risks
involved?
-
Do policing and business
partnerships have public buy-in, and is it important that they
do?
