A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of burglary at the Boots on Windsor Road in Penarth yesterday evening.  

The security alarms were going off at the Boots store in Penarth at around 10pm on Monday, November 25.  

Three police vehicles were parked outside the Boots store and officers were seen outside the premises. 

Police who responded to the alarm activation at the premises just before 10pm arrested a 38-year-old man who remains in custody. 

The man was arrested on suspicion of committing an alleged burglary, say police.

A spokesperson for South Wales Police said: “Officers responded to an alarm activation at the premises just before 10pm on Monday, November 25. 

“Shortly after, a 38-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of burglary, and he remains in custody.”

A spokesperson from Boots said: “We can confirm that an incident took place at our Boots Penarth store yesterday. We are assisting the police with their investigation.”

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The ongoing problem of commercial burglaries in the town centre 

This is the latest incident in a series of commercial burglaries which have troubled the town center in recent months. 

The police have put in place several initiatives to tackle the problem head on and this incident comes just as things may have felt like they were improving.

In a Penarth Town Council meeting, on September 12, Inspector Chile Gareth said: “I am aware commercial burglaries can be a problem for this area.” 

On October 10, in a council for the Vale of Glamorgan, Inspector Gareth Childs gave an update on crime patterns and specifically raised shoplifting in Penarth town Centre.  

We’ve got shoplifting in Penarth town centre which we are looking at the presence. We’ve done a number of initiatives there with some crime prevention. 

“We’ve been now to visit the stores and given that crime prevention advice and put in a lot of crime prevention advice. 

“We are trying to identify who the regular offenders are. 

“We’ve identified some of them and we will be looking at ways and means of bringing them into custody in the course of the next couple of weeks. 

I’m trying to move the figures as we are coming up to the Christmas period.   

“We are trying to get on top of that crime which has taken place in Penarth town centre and trying to bring some of those numbers down.   

“There aren’t huge numbers, but they do have an effect on the Penarth Community and I’m very conscious of that. It is something I want to bring down.”