The cost of living crisis is threatening a new surge in “high harm” burglary, car thefts and robbery as criminal gangs react to the rising expenses of everyday life by trying to make more money through offending, the head of the National Crime Agency warned on Monday.
Graeme Biggar said that criminal gangs had already “exploited the cost of living crisis” to put “more people at risk of crime” and that the threat they posed was continuing to grow.
