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9th January 2012, 17:05
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Plymouth City Centre proposes limits to number of foreign students in shops
Plymouth city centre is proposing to limit the number of foreign students who can enter shops at one time because of a rise in shoplifting and antisocial behaviour.
Teenagers who are visiting the city to study English could find their movements restricted by the Operation Drake project. Shops would display stickers stipulating that only a certain number of students could be inside at a time. Posters would also be sent to language schools explaining the scheme. Operation Drake is being discussed by city councillors on Monday but the project has already attracted criticism from some local people who believe it could be seen as racist. The proposals are set out in a report to the council's growth and prosperity overview and scrutiny panel (pdf). It says Operation Drake has been worked on by Plymouth Against Retail Crime and a police community support officer. The report says: "Over the past five years we have seen in Plymouth, especially the city centre area, a large influx of foreign students. Feedback received from retailers has been that they have experienced an increase in shoplifting and antisocial behaviour from foreign students, incurring large financial losses." It adds that the action plan includes: • Special cards for foreign students to carry with them at all times with useful contact numbers. • Stickers to be displayed in retail premises bearing Operation Drake logo limiting the number of students allowed in at any one time. • Posters displayed in all language schools explaining Operation Drake. The plan was greeted with concern on the Plymouth Herald website. "Shocked at how racist this report is. What sort of city are we living in?" said one commentator. "And will we be sewing some symbol on to their clothes just so we know who the 'different' people are?" asked another. Plymouth considers curbs on foreign students in city centre shops | UK news | guardian.co.uk __________________________________________________ _______________ Foreign students paying thousands of pounds to go over to the UK, then getting involved in petty theft...tsk tsk. |
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9th January 2012, 20:15
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What kind of sh*t is this? What if the UK citizens do the shoplifting? Aren't there any measures to combat that? What is this? Lawless city?
Why don't they simply apply heavy punishments on those caught in the surveillance cameras? Or simply ban the ones who do the shoplifting? |
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9th January 2012, 22:49
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They already do this with schoolkids in some places and limit the number of them in a shop at any one time due to theft. If they had just said we want to limit the numbers of students in a shop at any one time due to theft and not just aimed it at foreign students would there have been as much of a reaction as there is?
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10th January 2012, 00:08
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Not as crap as eferyone thinks
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Well they are saying:
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10th January 2012, 09:51
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Also these uprise in shopifting seems to have coincided with the occupy plymouth group (really it just coincides with the rise of numbers in xmas shopping but sod it, i'm blaming the soap dodgers)
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11th January 2012, 10:04
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There's a bloke in Holland that wont allow any Morrocon types in his Jewlers
After being violently robbed about 6 times he's had enough, when the do gooders of this world questioned his decision he said "What on earth could 3-4 hooded 18 year olds possibly afford in my shop? What are they doing in here in the first place?" I agree |
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11th January 2012, 10:07
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Not to mention, his change of rules doesn't sound particularly xenophobic, he just doesn't seem to like the lower classes and by the sounds of it only the Moroccan lower classes go into his shop, I'm sure if a rich, middle aged Moroccan walked in he'd have no qualms with the situation. |
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11th January 2012, 10:49
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