Current Statistics

Pre 2005 Statistics

Theft Statistics - 2006

British Retail Consortium... The BRC represents most large retailers and many trade associations for large, medium and small retail businesses.

Its annual survey is a valuable analysis of crime and security trends in the industry and the effects of working together, but its recent results have tended to vary excessively.

The Costs of Crime: These were the overall 2006 crime costs of UK retailers:

Customer theft £1,692 M
Employee theft £1,485 M
Supplier fraud £172 M
Card fraud £61 M
Robbery/burglary £20 M
Error and waste £559 M
Security and loss prevention £976 M

The 2005 figures show:
A slight rise in crime of 1%.
Unwitnessed/unknown crime was 78% of total recorded crime.
Security costs fell in 2005 by 5%, reducing the cost of crime.
The average detected customer theft was £115 in 2005.
The average recorded staff theft case was for £738.
A fall in staff theft.

British Retail Consortium 2005 RESULTS

Crime £ millions
Customer theft £770

Burglary £17
Staff Theft £344

Criminal Damage £14
Fraud £61

Robbery/snatch £4
Other £215
Loss Prevention £676

Total £2,100
 

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Theft Statistics - 2004

All statistics quoted below are sourced from the British Retail Consortium... http://www.brc.org.uk

The cost of crime to the British Retail Industry exceeded £2.1 billion in 2004.

While capital and revenue expenditure on Crime Prevention is falling straight forward theft is costing the retail industry over £1.1 billion. Follow the links below for more detailed trend analysis on each area of crime:

Customer Theft

Staff Theft

Violence Against Staff

Fraud

Burglaries

Criminal Damage

Robbery and Till Snatchers

Crime Prevention 

Customer Theft

Total Losses of £588 million - Up 44% on 2003

3,385 incidents per 100 Outlets - Up 18% on 2003

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Staff Theft

Total Losses of £498 million - Up 77% on 2003

9 incidents per 1,000 employees - figure unchanged

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Violence Against Staff

9 incidents of physical violence per 1,000 employees - Up 14% on 2003

31 incidents of verbal abuse per 1,000 employees - Up 35% on 2003

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Fraud

Total cost of £68 million - Up 11% on 2003

£161 lost per £1 million of turnover - Down 20% on 2003

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Burglaries

Total losses of £54 million - Down 52% on 2003

23 attempted and completed burglaries per 100 outlets - Down 30% on 2003

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Criminal Damage

Total cost of £24 million - Up 71% on 2003

52 incidents per 100 outlets - down 5% on 2003

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Robbers and Till Snatchers

Robbery: Total cost of £8.17 million - Up 8% on 2003

Till Snatch: Total cost of £2.63 million - Up 57% on 2003

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Crime Prevention

£335 million of Capital Investment - Down 15% on 2003

£376 million of Revenue Investment - Down 33% on 2003

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