Archive for March, 2007
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Café Handbag Thief Arrested
An off-duty police officer having a cup of coffee arrested a woman after he saw her leave the café with a stolen handbag.
Emma Price, 35, of Chatham Road, Battersea, who has previous theft convictions, admitted the theft at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court. She was jailed for five months last Friday.
On December 1, Price went into Starbucks [...]
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Police Praise Bag Theft Crackdown
The BBC
reports that:
a recent crackdown on bag snatches in Leicester city centre has been a success.
The Leicester City Centre Joint Action Group handed out small bells for people to attach to their purses and bags from 1 December 2006 to 5 January 2007.
The bells act as an alarm to bag owners and a [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Handbag Thefts Are Ten Percent of All Crime
An study of crime in Brighton has lead to some interesting results.
Police have revealed that ten per cent of all recorded crime in central Brighton is in relation to lost or stolen mobile phones and handbags.
In 2006, Sussex Police received reports of 1,500 bag thefts, or ‘dips’ where purses and items had been taken from [...]