Labour unveils plan to clamp down on retail crime

Our town centres have been heavily hit under the Tories. We’ve seen rising shoplifting, anti social behaviour and also shops being hit, particularly local businesses. That’s why Labour is setting out this plan, to get community policing back into our town centres, stronger action against shoplifting and assaults on shop workers, and also to scrap and replace business rates so that we can support our local High Street shops and pubs with. The Conservatives have finally done AU Turn and agreed to Labour’s plan for a new offence of assault against shop workers. But we have been calling for stronger action against violence on shop workers. For 10 years now and they have resisted at every stage. Even now it’s still a pale imitation of our plans because they’re not putting the neighbourhood police back on the streets to actually help take the action and do the work that we need. Labour’s plan would be 13,000 more neighbourhood could police and PCSO. In our town centres, high streets and neighborhoods across the country.