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European engineers and entrepreneurs since the dot-com boom of the 1990s have flocked to the U.S. for its acquisitive consumers, bountiful funding and love of innovation.

Mr Makepeace said the majority were for "relatively minor dishonesty offences", most usually shoplifting, and he had a "record typical of a life of acquisitive crime to fund drug use".

The Offending 2 Recovery programme started work in 2018 in Erdington, Birmingham, in response to research that revealed addiction to drugs drove as much as 50% of all acquisitive crime in the area.

It was a day in which an acquisitive foreign power had sent an uninvited delegation to the world's largest island with an uncomfortable message.

Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman, National Police Chiefs' Council lead for acquisitive crime, says they are "committed" to reducing theft and pursuing offenders.