Retail Crime Prevention Task Force

Tuesday, January 20, 2026·1h 20m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Delaware Retail Crime Prevention Task Force heard presentations from the Delaware State Police and Court of Common Pleas on retail crime statistics, case administration, and a request for two sergeants, ten troopers, and two crime analysts to staff a permanent retail crime unit — but took no formal votes and indicated it may seek a deadline extension to continue its work.

Key Actions

·DSP Retail Crime Data Snapshot – Statistics & Resource RequestNo Vote

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Controversies

Whether the DSP resource request circumvents the normal budget process

Brian Townsend preemptively stated the request was 'not any kind of end run around jfc' and 'not jumping the gun,' while Andrew Lloyd confirmed DSP had not gone to any other avenue to request more troopers and that the request was not baked into any OMB or GRB process — clarifying the request originated solely from the task force's own inquiry.

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Notable Quotes

“Statewide during that period, there were 56,790 reports of misdemeanor shoplifting, 2,691 felony shopliftings, and 1838 organized retail theft incidences reported.”
Andrew Lloyd, Delaware State Police — Lloyd opened the DSP statistics presentation summarizing the full statewide incident count for the January 1, 2016 through September 5, 2025 data snapshot, establishing the scale of the retail crime problem in Delaware.

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TranscriptPreview

So we're going to officially kick off the thing. Already did the thing and now it's done the thing, right? Yes. Okay, good. Good morning everyone. We are going to go around the room real quick and just announce our names and our affiliations as part of the attendance taking process and then get started from there. We'll do a person first, then online. As always, the amazing Wyatt Patterson will help us facilitate all of it starting. Myself, Brian Townsend, State Senator Cindy Romer, State Rep. Susan Brown, Delaware association of School Administrators Andrew Rogers, DOJ Caitlin Gregory Odious Good morning. Julie Moreau Wanger, Delaware Food Industry Council Andrew Lloyd, Delaware State Police and just a note, I have to excuse myself around 10 for another obligation. Marvin Maly, Delaware association of Chiefs of Police we do have a couple people on the side, not officially the task force, but Christy Wright, purple Delaware State and online. Hi, I'm Whitney Frame for the Court of Common please. Good morning. Paul Shavik, Department of Correction. I also have to jump off about 10 o' clock or so. Thank you. I think that's it. Online we have a quorum. I'll note…

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