Nearly 900 arrests have been made and more than 700 charges secured for shoplifting offences across Greater Manchester across the first quarter of 2025.

Districts across the force are continuing to clamp down on retail crime, through a variety of operations, days of action, and proactive work to bring offenders to justice.

This continued work comes on the back of a further year of improvement, which saw more than 100 shoplifters brought to justice every week in Greater Manchester. More than 5,000 shoplifting offences in the year up to November 2024 were solved – a huge increase on recent years.

In total, 893 arrests were made in the three months up until 3 April 2025, with a further 707 charges in that same period.

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