Police were accused of ‘passing the buck’ on a shoplifting epidemic yesterday as shock new figures show almost 800 crimes a day are going unsolved.
Officers closed 289,464 shoplifting cases without identifying a suspect in 2024-25, up 18 per cent on the previous year when 245,337 were shelved.
On average, 793 offences a day went unsolved in the last year.
The new analysis comes after official figures revealed Britain is in the grip of a retail crime epidemic, with one theft recorded every minute for the first time in history.
Shoplifting levels have doubled since the pandemic and rocketed by 20 per cent since the Government came into power last year.
