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Originally Posted by Derek S
I've merged this into the existing tough on crime thread.
Yep pretty unbelievable it ever got this far but you'll see more and more of these cases with the crime recording standards and the CPS having to hit targets they'll prosecute easy cases which should have been binned.
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It is entirely possible that there are other factors here to consider. Perhaps there was a history of things going missing, when this person was on duty? There may have been a history of interpersonal issues with this employee that culminated in the theft.
If any of my employees did such a thing, I would have issued a warning, but if it persisted, I may have been forced to take the same steps this company did. There was a similar incident a couple of years ago, where a female employee was harassing another employee. There was nothing that I could specifically discipline the person on, because the victim would not make a complaint, so I did my best to reduce the impact on her as much as I could. In the end I was able to dismiss her her for criminal damage of the others property. Fortunately she was witnessed by another colleague and this person spoke up. I offered the victim our full support if she wanted to take the matter further, i.e. involve the police, but despite my encouragement for her to do so, she felt the matter had now come to a conclusion and was happy to have no more issues with the now former colleague.