Nobody should be afraid to go to work or to shop on their local high street. Yet soaring levels of retail crime have seen shopworkers face appalling levels of violence and abuse at work. To make matters worse, stats show that 71% of serious retail crime in the UK is not responded to by police.
Throughout Wales criminals have been given the freedom to loot, with organised crime gangs often stealing to order and persistently repeating these offences in the same shops. What’s more, these criminal acts often act as flashpoints for anti-social behaviour against retail staff who are subject to appalling levels of violence, threats and abuse as they go about their jobs.
This behaviour is unacceptable, and alongside the co-operative retail sector, the Co-operative Party and the shopworkers’ union USDAW have long campaigned for more to be done to address this crisis.
Members of the Wales Co-operative Party are invited to join this online event with Andrew Dunbobbin, Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales as he discusses how Welsh Labour & Co-operative Police & Crime Commissioners are tackling this. Chaired by Jackie Jones, Chair of the Wales Co-operative Party.