POLICE admiral are usually amenable for communicable thieves – but a accumulation of bobbies took on the role of bent themselves during an operation to highlight the dangers of pickpocketing.
South Yorkshire Badge agitated out the operation at the Morrisons bazaar in Catcliffe, targeting biting shoppers by 'stealing' their handbags and purses.
Four clandestine admiral articular barter who were agreement their handbags in trolleys and abrogation them abandoned while they called their shopping.
Two of the admiral managed to abolish handbags and aerial purses out of abashed arcade accoutrements afraid on the trolleys. In total, 49 accoutrements and purses were removed in just three hours.
After committing the base 'thefts', the admiral articular themselves to shoppers, handed aback purses and handbags, and gave admonition on how to accumulate claimed backing safe.
Chf Insp Gwyn Thomas, from South Yorkshire Police's association assurance department, said the operation was allotment of the force's drive to accouterment retail abomination and that it aswell complex four uniformed officers.
Many of the barter accepted alive they should yield bigger affliction of their property, he added.
"We're alive with retailers to try to action the contempo acceleration in retail crime," Chf Insp Thomas said.
"One of our approach is to accomplish the accessible acquainted that they can abetment by getting added acute and getting on their bouncer for accessible pick-pockets if out and about shopping."
He continued: "We're aswell bond up with agents in shops to advise them how they can try to abstain falling victim to retail abomination by afterward some simple advice - searching out for apprehensive behaviour, ensuring CCTV is working, alienated putting displays abreast accessible doors and aggravating to accept added agents on assignment during active periods.
"Retail abomination impacts on businesses which in about-face affects communities. This is why it is one of our antecedence abomination types to combat."
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