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The articles below are the latest news from City Watch Leicester.
Rise in young girls shoplifting
BY CIARAN FAGAN
SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT Leicester Mercury
10:30 - 27 May 2008
A growing number of young girls are ending up with criminal records for shoplifting... >> Read the full story
Counterfiet Note Pens on sale
An alert was issued today after counterfeit £20 notes were discovered.
Police and anti-crime group Citywatch said a batch of forged cash has appeared in Leicester in the past couple... >> Read the full story
Thief is told clean up or go to prison
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008
BY CIARAN FAGAN
SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
13 May 2008
A persistent shoplifter and general "menace" has been told he will go to jail if he fails to... >> Read the full story
Tree blocks view of CCTV camera
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008
BY CIARAN FAGAN
SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
14 May 2008
A tree has been planted in front of a CCTV camera which monitors two main shopping streets.
Warning Over Purse Thieves
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Police in Leicester city centre have released images of two women they want to speak to in connection with purse thefts.
The women were captured on CCTV following an incident near the... >> Read the full story
City Watch receives Awards
At the recent Action Against Business Crime conference held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, City Watch has received the following Awards
In the Category for Partnership Innovation City... >> Read the full story
Menace Thief?
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008
BY SUZY GIBSON
COURT STAFF LEICESTER MERCURY
A persistent shoplifter was branded "an absolute menace" by a judge who locked him up.
Heroin addict... >> Read the full story
Sentencing Guidlines Gone Mad?
By Cairan Fagan
Leicester Mercury
Businesses have criticised a proposal to put violent drug-addicted shoplifters on treatment courses instead of sending them to prison.
City Watch Leisure Awards
At the recent Annual Leisure Awards held at Jongleurs Comedy Club on Granby street over £1400 pounds was rasided for Rainbows Childrens Charity.
After the success of last years event there... >> Read the full story
CCTV One person to monitor!
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Leicester's network of CCTV cameras is "a poor relation" to systems in other cities, a crime-fighting group claimed today.
Most of the time the 30-plus cameras in the city... >> Read the full story
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