Following contact from both large and small businesses about ongoing and prolific shoplifting and break-ins to their businesses, Andrew Selous MP has called for an increased police and criminal justice response.
Andrew Selous MP said, “I have been contacted by the Co-op and Waitrose nationally about an increase in shoplifting, and I’m also aware that a large number of town centre shops in Leighton Buzzard have been broken into recently. There is good CCTV footage available and I expect a full police effort to get prosecutions as well as the criminal justice system to provide appropriately robust punishments.
Break-ins to small businesses can be devastating to the owners and shoplifting means we all pay more during this cost-of-living crisis so these are most certainly not victimless crimes.
It is urgent that we have a much greater police presence in Bossard House as soon as possible, and I continue to press both the Chief Constable and the Police and Crime Commissioner to deliver this.”