Police in Birmingham have been failing to record shop lifting offences, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
The Birmingham Mail report:
Crime logs have revealed police were failing to record or investigate more than 60 per cent of shoplifting offences in Birmingham city centre.
And a damning Mail investigation has discovered the West Midlands force may have breached Home Office rules by under-recording huge numbers of store thefts .
Police documents show a bombshell ‘risk-crime audit’ last August discovered officers were repeatedly failing to investigate shoplifting offences in a breach of national crime-recording policy.