A business leader says there's a retail crime emergency.
Police data shows more than 400 retail crimes were reported a day last year, with six staff a day complaining to police they'd been assaulted.
There were more than 2000 assaults on retail workers over the course of the year, including almost 400 sexual assaults, a 20% increase from 2022.
Dairy and Business Owners Group chair Sunny Kaushal told Mike Hosking that the figures reveal there's a reported retail crime, on average, every three and a half minutes.
He believes real crime figures would be much higher as most crime goes unreported.
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