This 5% increase marks the first time in a number of years that the overall shop theft record has not been broken every quarter – the 12 month period to June 2025 retains this record at 529,994 shop theft offences. Elsewhere in the survey, the number of robberies of business properties has risen sharply to 22,478 offences – an increase of 66% on the previous year. There was also a fall in the number of offences involving knives and sharp instruments of 9% to 50,430 offences compared to the previous year. Figures from the 2025 ACS Crime Report show that there were over 6.2million incidents of theft recorded by convenience retailers alone over the last year, so there remains a significant gap between what is happening on the ground and what is being recorded by forces. “Theft is also one of the main triggers for violence and abuse against retail workers.