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Speaker 1: Now, look, I totally understand that retailers want an urgent

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Speaker 1: meeting with the police minister. This is over the revelation

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Speaker 1: that police aren't bothering to investigate shoplifting below five hundred

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Speaker 1: bucks anymore. They're clearly worried because what's happened is there's

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Speaker 1: been a revelation from a memo that was sent to

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Speaker 1: police staff a couple of months ago saying that from

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Speaker 1: now on across all districts, cops will no longer investigate

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Speaker 1: theft and fraud below a certain value. General theft anything

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Speaker 1: below two hundred bucks, are not investigating petrol drive offs,

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Speaker 1: anything below one hundred and fifty bucks, not investigating shoplifting

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Speaker 1: anything below five hundred bucks. Fraud as in payWave fraud,

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Speaker 1: online fraud scams anything below one thousand dollars, and then

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Speaker 1: all other fraud anything below five hundred bucks, cops aren't

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Speaker 1: turning up. And that is, by the way, regardless of

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Speaker 1: whether you have lines of inquiry, right, so, even if

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Speaker 1: you know who nicked the stuff, even if you can

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Speaker 1: tell them where the stuff, is not going to investigate. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's totally understandable for retailers to want an urgent meeting

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Speaker 1: on this because this has probably come as something of

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Speaker 1: a shock. So this is the reality, isn't it. There

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Speaker 1: are not enough police to deal with all the crime

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Speaker 1: in the country. We know that. It's not really even

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Speaker 1: a total surprise when you think about how many stories

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Speaker 1: you've heard about people who go to the police tell

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Speaker 1: the police exactly where the bike is, where the police

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Speaker 1: can go and find it because it's been nicked, and

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Speaker 1: the police won't go and get it. But this is

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Speaker 1: going to be a problem, isn't it when the thieves

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Speaker 1: start finding out about the stuff Because they may be criminals,

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Speaker 1: but they're not alway stupid. They know what they can

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Speaker 1: get away with scot free, and that is why so

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Speaker 1: many of them just ended up brazenly pushing those loaded

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Speaker 1: trolleys out of the supermarkets for a while there, because

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Speaker 1: they knew nothing was going to happen to them. I

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Speaker 1: suspect the same thing is going to happen once they

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Speaker 1: figure out what the thresholds are here. And if this

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Speaker 1: is the reality that we now live in, then I

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Speaker 1: think the only solution to this is for the government

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Speaker 1: to get out of the way of retailers helping themselves.

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Speaker 1: They need to let the supermarkets use that facial facial

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Speaker 1: recognition technology they want to use so they can stop

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Speaker 1: people from coming in and committing the crime. They need

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Speaker 1: to pass the citizens Arrest Law to allow the retailers

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Speaker 1: themselves in the security guards to stop the krim getting

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Speaker 1: away with this stuff, because frankly, if the cops can't help,

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Speaker 1: and clearly there aren't enough of them to help. If

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Speaker 1: the cops can't help, then the retailers need the tools

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Speaker 1: to be able to help themselves. For more from Hither

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