"We also noticed most
shoplifting incidents are on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
The data, based on comparable figures from 25 police forces under Freedom of Information laws, also indicates a year-on-year rise in
shoplifting and pick-pocketing incidents at supermarkets combined of 2.4%, 1.9% and 2.7% between 2014 and 2017.
The ECHO spoke to some leading retailers in the city centre who said they were worried about the scale of the
shoplifting problem in the city.
In Sandwell, for example, the number of
shoplifting offences recorded by police rose from 1,878 in the 12 months to September 2016 to 2,207 a year later - an increase of 18 per cent.
Retailers have warned that the increase in
shoplifting is partly fuelled by police forces not investigating the theft of items worth less than PS200.
"Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that
shoplifting is no big deal.
A massive 23 of these were
shoplifting reports, which includes thefts from shops and stalls.
To translate the recorded instances of
shoplifting in various cities, and then noting that Gateshead was the only city (sic) in Tyne and Wear with a below national average rate of the offence was used to assert that this demonstrated that "the equivalent of only one in every 197 residents committed the retail crime".
Throughout the UK, there were 327,925 cases of
shoplifting - one for every 176 people.
An exclusive analysis of crime figures by the Examiner has revealed the scale of the problem within the area, with instances of
shoplifting increasing by 14.1 per cent in Kirklees in the past year.
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Shoplifting apprehensions rose 7.4%, while dishonest employee apprehensions rose 1.7%.