§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he plans any new initiatives to seek to prevent crime in shops.
§ Mr. John PattenAdvice on the prevention of theft from shops is featured in the handbook "Practical Ways to Crack Crime" which was published on 9 March in support of the Department's national crime prevention publicity campaign. The Home Office is also in touch with officials from the retail trade's main representative bodies — the Retail Consortium, the British Retailers Association and the Association for the Prevention of Theft in Shops — regarding the proposal, which I welcome, that the trade should mount its own national campaign aimed at the prevention of shop theft.
As an aid to planning effective measures against theft from shops we shall shortly be publishing, as a Home Office crime prevention unit paper, a report prepared by a representative of the Dixon Group plc, working in collaboration with the crime prevention unit, under the title "Retail Crime: Prevention through Crime Analysis".