GIRLS AS DETECTIVES
Alert shopgirls, acting as amateur detectives, have done much to check an epidemic of shoplifting in Glasgow (states a correspondent). Almost every other clay shoplifting charges are brought in tho courts, mostly against women and girls. “ Thousands of pounds arc being lost, to business Arms every week by shoplifting,” a police official said lately. ‘Jit is unfair to depend on tho salesgirl to spot the thieves—she has enough to do without that. More trained and experienced private detectives are needed to deal with tho evil.” Many of tho larger stores have their house detectives, hut tho women thieves, most of whom come from teams and villages outside tho city, have made extensive raids on the smaller establishments.
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Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 11
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120GIRLS AS DETECTIVES Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 11
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