Retail Crime

We are committed to supporting our retailers across Hampshire and Isle of Wight by preventing crime and bringing offenders to justice.

Over the past 12-18 months we have been working closely and proactively with local businesses, Business Crime Reduction Partnerships and Business Improvement Districts across the county to understand the full scale of the problems they are facing and to encourage reporting.


Our retail partners have been working incredibly hard to support us in tackling shoplifting and criminality associated with it, and we thank them for this. There are some simple steps you can take as retailers that help us greatly in securing convictions against offenders in your stores. We have collated some useful resources in order to support retail staff across Hampshire and Isle of Wight which can all be found on this page.

The below infographic shows what you can expect from an investigation into retail crime once it has been reported to us (click to enlarge):

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