00:00I would not advise people to tackle an individual who was stealing.
00:04I came across someone stealing in a store in Hull.
00:07I went straight to the assistant to tell them what was happening.
00:10I felt that was the best thing to do.
00:12Obviously, it's a judgment for individuals to take,
00:14but I am worried about people feeling they need to have a go.
00:18I don't think that is appropriate.
00:20I think we need to have that neighbourhood police presence.
00:22I think stores need to play their part in making sure that items
00:26that are of high value are not at the front of the store
00:28because that's an issue in some stores,
00:31that they put bottles of alcohol at the front of the store,
00:34which obviously people will nick.
00:36If they're going to steal, to resell, they will nick items like that.
00:40So I think it's not just one thing here.
00:42It has to be an approach with the retailers,
00:45with the government and with the police to work together.
00:48I chair a retail crime forum of all the big national retailers.
00:53We sit down together and we work out how best we can start to tackle
00:57what's happened over the last few years
00:59where we have seen this increase in shop theft and it has to stop.
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