Overview
- Clapham disorder, which drew about 100 Met officers on Tuesday, left four officers and a bystander assaulted as shops were swarmed by teenagers.
- Police say six teenage girls aged 13 to 17 have now been arrested in connection with the Saturday and Tuesday incidents.
- M&S leaders wrote to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and London Mayor Sadiq Khan urging faster responses, more resources, and consistent data‑sharing after staff were attacked, including an employee hospitalised by an ammonia assault.
- Greater Manchester Police imposed a 48‑hour dispersal order across Rochdale town centre from Thursday to late Saturday after reports of youths harassing staff and causing damage.
- The debate broadened as Iceland’s Lord Walker backed pepper spray and truncheons for store guards, while official data show 519,381 shoplifting offences in the year to September 2025 and a policing bill to criminalise assaults on retail workers nears enactment.