More success for Kirkby’s retail crime crackdown
A neighbourhood policing team has netted two further successes as they continue to crack down on shop thieves in Kirkby.
The Kirkby neighbourhood team has secured criminal behaviour orders (CBO) against two prolific thieves who continued to target local stores and make shop workers’ lives a misery.
Local officers have been working with retailers to ensure they get the evidence they need against persistent and prolific offenders.
They have then applied to the courts for criminal behaviour orders.
These results have included strict prohibitions to stop their harmful behaviour, as well as positive requirements to address the underlying causes of their behaviour.
Conna Ross, of no fixed address, faced Nottingham Magistrates’ Court earlier this month (6 March) after a spate of shop thefts.
The 25-year-old helped himself to chocolate, washing pods and coffee as he targeted shops from 9 February to 24 February.
After pleading guilty to 11 counts of shoplifting, he was jailed for ten months.
He has also been made the subject of a two-year criminal behaviour order, meaning he must not enter, or loiter within ten metres of Tesco Express in Lowmoor Road, B&M, Station Street, Morrisons Daily, Kingsway, Morrisons, Ashfield Precinct or Farmfoods, Lowmoor Road.
The Kirkby team’s latest order has been obtained against prolific thief Craig Hook.
Hook, of Mattley Avenue, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, was handed a Criminal Behaviour Order when he appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on 18 March.
This follows a string of shop thefts committed by the 45-year-old, targeting local shops between 2 March and 15 March.
He received a two-year criminal behaviour order, banning him from entering a number of shops in Kirkby-in-Ashfield up until 18 March 2028.
If he breaches the conditions of his order, he will be arrested, returned to court, and face being sent to prison.
Under the terms of his order he must not enter Tesco Express, Lowmoor Road, Boyes, Lowmoor Road, Farmfoods, Lowmoor Road, Co-operative, Skegby Road or Morrisons Daily, Kingsway.
The CBO forms part of his Community Order, where he is also required to participate in 10 days of rehabilitation appointments.
PC Megan Rodgers, of the Ashfield neighbourhood policing team, said: “These orders, helping to protect retail staff and their customers, were secured thanks to more good work by our local officers.
“Shop workers should not have to put up with this sort of unacceptable behaviour. Staff should feel safe when they are at work and customers should feel safe when they are shopping.
“I want to reassure people that we will continue to do everything we can to identify persistent and prolific offenders and seek to apply for criminal behaviour orders to break this cycle of offending in our communities.
“If you witness someone in breach of their order, don’t hesitate to report it to us via 101 or online.”