00:00As the cost-living crisis gets worse, acquisitive crime is going to go up and has gone up three
00:07areas where acquisitive crime has gone up. Personal theft, personal robbery and shoplifting.
00:14Particularly bad here in London is the key point.
00:17Because we have a lot of shops here and because the cost-living crisis is more acute in the
00:20capital city.
00:22Percentage increase there.
00:24Personal theft and personal robbery is a big concern of me as well in London.
00:28That's one of the reasons why I support the Commissioner in him having as a priority
00:33enabled teams.
00:34I've been myself out in patrols with enabled teams in Waterloo and elsewhere where the
00:38work they've been doing with the retailers using facial recognition, having good enabled
00:45watch teams has led to a reduction in those particular shops.
00:49I'm really pleased that the Home Secretary has now convened a roundtable to address this
00:56issue which includes concerns around shoplifting.
00:59It is a big issue across the country.
01:01I speak regularly to retailers including Asdor that represent retailers, staff who are assaulted
01:07as a consequence of working in shops by people who own a shoplifter or commit personal theft
01:12and personal robbery.
01:13So it's an issue personal to me as someone who used to work in retail but it's also an
01:17issue important to Londoners.
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