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Organized Retail theft targeted by congress |
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Organized Retail theft targeted by congress
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Darrell Miller | 01/31/06 |
Date:
January 31, 2006 03:47 PM
Author: Darrell Miller
(dm@vitanetonline.com)
Subject: Organized Retail theft targeted by congress
Organized Retail theft targeted by congress
Legislation establishing an Organized Retail Theft Task Force within the Federal Bureau of Investigation was passed by both houses of Congress in December and expected to be signed into law by the president. The bill directs the task force and U.S. attorney general to help establish a national private-sector database to track organized retail crime, which the FBI can then use to pinpoint theft rings’ targets around the country and assign agents and resources to break up the rings. The Food Marketing institute estimates that “Professional shoplifting gangs” steal as much as 30 billion annually from retailers and suppliers.
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