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The Times & The Sunday Times

The Times & The Sunday Times

The county where police are winning the battle against shoplifters

The Times & The Sunday Times
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Norfolk Constabulary’s chief constable Paul Sanford has gone back to basics’ He has introduced “old-fashioned tactics’ alongside cutting-edge technology.

Norfolk has seen a 11.6 per cent reduction in all crime across the force.

Only 431 shoplifters were given 90 fixed-penalty notices in ten years ago .

The Times visited the nearby market, a vibrant community selling a variety of food, clothes and crafts.

A market owner showed us a photograph he had taken of a man with a plastic storage box filled with shoes bearing their tags, which he said had been stolen that morning .

He said: “It’s a societal problem and it feels that it can’t be stopped.”.

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informal

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English

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34

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