Government to Crack Down on Antisocial Behaviour and Shoplifting

The government will bring in new powers to tackle antisocial behaviour, shoplifting, and nuisance off-road biking, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced. Cooper outlined her “mission for safer streets,” telling Labour conference attendees in Liverpool on Tuesday that her government would put neighbourhood police back into communities “and back on the beat.” “For too long rising town centre and street crime have been driving people away from our high streets, corroding the fabric of our communities,” the home secretary said, adding that the government will introduce a new law on assaults on shopworkers. “Everyone has the right to work in freedom from fear,” Cooper said, with the measures coming as a result of campaigning from the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers and the retailer, Co-op....