I have been caught in boots for shoplifting

[mehrgan]

Hi

I have done the biggest mistake in my life.

 

I shoplifted from boots for £60

they scaned my driving licence and they took my NI number.

police came

 

 

because it was my first time they didn't arrest me.

took my details

will keep my record for life time

if I do that again

and they catch me I will be arrested.

 

 

I need to know is it true they will keep my record for life?

 

I have been banned from all the bòots shop across the UK - is this also true?

 

I am really scared if they pass my details to all boots shop

or if police keep my record

 

 

if I do the dbs check it is going to show on that?

 

 

how much fine will received from RLP

[dx100uk]

Hi

I have done the biggest mistake in my life.

 

I shoplifted from boots for £60

they scaned my driving licence and they took my NI number.

police came

 

because it was my first time they didn't arrest me.

took my details

will keep my record for life time

if I do that again

and they catch me I will be arrested.

 

 

I need to know is it true they will keep my record for life? - no it expires

I have been banned from all the bòots shop across the UK - is this also true?

yes but you are quite safe to use other boots stores

just stay away from that one for a good few months

 

I am really scared if they pass my details to all boots shop

or if police keep my record

 

if I do the dbs check it is going to show on that? - NO

how much fine will received from RLP

 

 

RLP cant 'fine' you

they are NOTHING to do with any legal system in the UK.

simply TOTALLY ignore them and their silly silly letters.

 

forget you ever did it

and DONT DO IT AGAIN

[mehrgan]

Thank you

but what about my national insurance number and mmy driving licence?

I am really terrified.

 

how long after police record will be expire?

[dx100uk]

its only a pocket book note

 

as said I would not worry about it.

 

but you MUST MUST MUST

totally ignore RLP.

 

never ever write back or pay them anything.

you are in the RLP forum.

go read the threads here.

just like the one you posted on earlier.

 

 

dx

[dx100uk]

so what they took a few details to identify you

that's all it was for,

 

we/they don't persecute people

that have done a silly thing.

however much Jackie at RLP would like it that way i'm sure

 

 

 

 

forget about it.

just behave yourself in the future.

 

 

dx

Edited February 26, 2016 by Andyorch
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[mehrgan]

Thank you

[dx100uk]

hey no sweat.

 

 

you will ofcourse get a series of ever threatening letters from rlp

promising everything from burning your granny's budgie

to spoiling you and your families employment and rights to be in this country.

 

 

simply ignore them and laugh at the silly sily things they write

and the 'fake' legal way they use certain words and form their letters

 

 

next you'll get a series of letter from a 'pet' debt collection agency.

again totally ignore

a debt collection agency [DCA] are NOT BAILIFFS

and have no such legal powers

just like RLP.

its all to extort money out of people that don't know the LAW regarding shoplifting

 

 

only the courts and the police can FINE you.

not RLP etc

 

 

civil recovery mumbo jumbo

to line their own pockets

NOTHING ever gets into the retailers hands either.

dx

[andydd]

Good advice. Also worth saying that this forum is full of similar threads? This should be s warning to others, please don't risk your career by doing something as petty as stealing from stores, in this case it looks like the OP has been lucky but it could well ruin your job prospects and travel to US for example.

[silverfox1961]

Hi and welcome to CAG.

 

You have already had some sterling advice so please bear in mind for the future. If you are arrested in the future, they 'may' bring this matter up as well so the answer to that is, don't do it again.

 

What they mean about 'for life' is that this will probably be recorded on the police national database and may be disclosed if you apply for jobs where an enhanced DBS check is required. If you apply for some jobs that require this check, the chief constable would make the decision whether to disclose this information or not, depending on the relevence to the job you apply for so, if you apply for a job where an enhance check is required, it may be better to offer the information up front and explain why you did what you did and the circumstances around your poor decision making at the time of the act.

 

I have added the above to help IF this situation arises, not that it WILL.

 

 

With Retail Loss Prevention, just ignore everything they send you. Read each letter they send at least twice in full to then understand the real meaning of the letters. RLP use misinformation to confuse you into thinking they have more power than they actually have.

[mehrgan]

Htey have my National insurance number can they find my employer and can inform them for what happened?

[dx100uk]

nope not allowed too

 

 

dx

[ericsbrother]

The police do keep a database that contains almost everything that crosses their path.

 

 

If I want to call the police they will usually know who I am by my phone number (landline),

they know who my car is registered to

and they know that my data was requested for a passport application 6 years ago.

 

 

All of this is just background noise and will not be looked at again

until next time I renew my driving licenec etc and after that it is ignored for another 10 years.

 

However, that has nothing to do with Boots or RLP

and they are not privvy to that data and nor is your employer, your doctor, local council, vicar etc.

 

RLP know that you are currently ashamed of yourself

and will play on that guilt and the suggestion that somehow

they have a role to play in forcing you onto the straight and narrow. Not true.

 

 

Their demand for "restitution" is nothing of the sort,

it is profiting from someone'e vulnerability and immoral.

 

Boots wont have a database of people who have attempted to shoplift

but may belong to a local scheme where information about persistent convicted offenders is shared.

 

 

They wont pass your details on to anyone else as they cant

and it is not economically viable to post up piccies of everyone banned from their stores

but use a bit of common sense and stay out of that branch for a very good while

[mehrgan]

Thank you

[silverfox1961]

On another point regarding RLP. IF it was their intention to use civil recovery as a deterrent and it worked, their whole business model would put them out of business which is something no company would want hence them claiming to act as a deterrent is blatantly false. They are out to make money, pure and simple.

 

Another thing. If shoplifting suddenly stopped everywhere all at once, would the stores lower their prices to reflect less costs? Of course not.