2 weeks Ago
However, co-director Parisa Javani has claimed the business has been targeted by a group of teenagers every week since who “take delight in disrupting her business and shoplift as though it is a game”. She is calling on Essex Police and the Eastgate Shopping Centre to do more to protect traders such as herself. “Although they are young, they come in big groups and you don’t know what they’re going to do.
” She added: “They will come and talk to me when they do it. They will ask if I would like to give them the items for free or if they should steal it. Since moving into her first-floor Eastgate unit in May, Parisa says she has been targeted by groups on a weekly basis.
“Every time it happens, I tell the police, but they do nothing,” said Parisa. “I also think the security here should be doing something, even if it’s just providing us with some clear CCTV photos of the shoplifters”. A spokesman for the Eastgate said: “We arranged a Basildon Town Centre meeting in Eastgate so that we could discuss in the town and find ways of working together.
Chief Inspector Dan Mchugh wanted to meet retailers to talk about the issues they have with anti-social behaviour and crime and discuss with them plans about things happening going forward.”.
