999: What's Your Emergency? Season 4 Episode 18 Poverty
- August 14, 2018
- 46 min
There have been seismic changes in the frequency of crimes involving theft and stealing in recent times. Shoplifting has risen over 30% in the last 10 years. Now nearly a million Britons rely on zero hours contracts - an increase of more than 500% in the last ten years - and the number living in poverty is projected to rise by 3.6 million in the coming twelve years (by 2030).