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.