Violence And Abuse Against Shopworkers

EDM number 172 in 2002-03, proposed by Tom Watson on 21/11/2002.

That this House is appalled by the recent increase in incidents of violent attacks and abuse of shopworkers, as reported in the British Retail Consortium's Annual Crime Survey; notes with concern that last year there were over 20,000 reported incidents of physical violence against shopworkers and 28,000 threats of violence; further notes with concern that there is also a considerable number of incidents that go unreported; calls upon Right honourable and honourable Members to support Usdaw's campaign against violence and abuse of shopworkers; and calls on the Government to make retail crime a police key performance indicator and to promote and resource town centre and safer shopping partnerships.

This motion has been signed by a total of 124 MPs.