Stacey Dooley to front BBC documentary exploring Britain’s rise in shoplifting

It comes arsenic the presenter is to person the trustees’ gong astatine this year’s Grierson Awards, taking placing connected Wednesday evening, and celebrating the champion of documentary.

The corp besides announced that determination are further projects successful the pipeline, including an further azygous documentary and 2 series.

In the hour-long programme, Stacey Dooley: Shoplifting, the presenter volition conscionable unit who person been taxable to unit from shoplifters, witnessing the interaction it is having connected their lives.

According to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published past month, the fig of shoplifting offences recorded by constabulary successful England and Wales has risen to a 20-year high.

Dooley, 37, said: “I’m incredibly honoured to person the Grierson Trustee Award. With a important emergence successful shoplifting, it feels much important than ever to walk due clip with the radical and complexities involved.

“This designation fuels my committedness to support telling these stories, and I’m thankful for each the enactment – and those who person backed maine from the commencement – that allows maine to support pushing forward”.

Dooley has presented Panorama occurrence Stacey Meets The IS Brides and documentaries including Locked Up With The Lifers, and Stalkers.

With a important emergence successful shoplifting, it feels much important than ever to walk due clip with the radical and complexities involved.

Stacey Dooley

The Luton-born presenter has explored a wide scope of subjects successful her BBC documentaries with an accent connected social-issue themes specified arsenic kid labour, women successful processing countries, slavery and the amerciable narcotics trade.

She was crowned the victor of Strictly Come Dancing successful 2018 and made an MBE for services to broadcasting that aforesaid year.

Clare Sillery, caput of commissioning, documentaries, said: “Stacey Dooley has taken documentary viewers into immoderate of the astir challenging places and truthful I’m delighted to spot her endowment recognised arsenic the recipient of this year’s Grierson Trustees’ Award 2024.

“In this latest movie Stacey explores a precocious thoroughfare epidemic, spending clip with young shoplifters and the store unit connected the beforehand line.

“This, on with different films we’re moving connected with Stacey, volition bring a unsocial penetration into the changing look of modern Britain.”

Stacey Dooley: Shoplifting volition aerial connected BBC Three and BBC iPlayer successful 2025. More details volition beryllium announced successful owed course.