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Crime statistics: Shoplifting up by 20% according to PSNI figures

Shoplifting is up nearly 20% in Northern Ireland in the last year, according to the latest crime figures release by the police.

It comes despite an overall drop in crime levels.

A shop manager in Belfast city centre told BBC News NI that shoplifting has become “really bad”.

Adele Reilly said she had definitely seen an increase in the past couple of years and that people were mostly taking food.

The spike in shoplifting is at odds with the overall crime figures, which show a drop in the past year.

The amount of criminal incidents recorded from April 2023 to March 2024 was down 6% compared to the previous 12 months.

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Deputy Chief Constable Chris Todd said the statistics were “very welcome”.

“These efforts are all the more remarkable given the significant resource pressures which our officers and staff have found themselves working under throughout this period.”

However, he added there were some “areas of concern particularly relating to hate-motivated incidents and shoplifting”.


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