Violence, threats and abuse against retail workers is completely unacceptable.
I joined staff and campaigners at Tesco in Trostre on Friday to support Usdaw Union’s call to raise public awareness of this deplorable behaviour and give workers the confidence to speak out, report abuse and not accept it as part of the job.
Labour’s community policing guarantee includes new powers to ban repeat offenders from town centres / public areas and our Crime and Policing Bill removes the £200 threshold on dealing with shoplifting as a summary offence to drive up prosecutions and demonstrate shoplifting is being taken seriously. We’re also introducing a new, standalone, offence of assaulting a retail worker, giving workers in shops up and down the country the protection they need.
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