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Plans for more bobbies on the beat get further backing from retailers

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A second retailers’ association has endorsed government plans to put more policemen on the beat through a new neighbourhood policing guarantee. Andrew Goodacre, chief executive at the British Independent Retailers Association (Bira), said: “We cautiously welcome the prime minister’s recognition that shoplifting and anti-social behaviour…

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