Retail Loss Prevention Limited

Civil Recovery

Police Introduction

We have established operating procedures for Civil Recovery and agreed guidelines with the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland (ACPOS). We have worked with the Criminal Justice Development Department of the PSNI to establish Civil Recovery in Northern Ireland.

As a result of a recently published Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) article all of the above relationships are being reviewed so that any concerns can be addressed and these protocols fit with the crime profile of 2010.

Retail civil recovery is a method used by many retailers to recover losses, damages and expenses (such as the cost of apprehending the wrongdoer, security costs and damage/loss to goods or property) directly from shop thieves. Trespass to goods has been established as part of the English law of tort for hundreds of years.