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Zeus posted...

Revelation34 posted...

That link is wrong. Store employees cannot detain shoplifters. Only loss and prevention and security can.

Actually, they can. Most stores have policies against it, but legally an employee can stop a shoplifter. There's no special law that designates loss prevention (which, by the way, is a separate function with no real presence at most retailers; a rep from the department might show up a few times a year) or security (which most retailers don't have anyway) as being the only people who can detain suspected thieves.

In this you are correct. While the commen man cannot legally detain someone unless they are making a citizen's arrest 'merchants' and their employees have special permissions to detain those persons they believe are shoplifting from their establishments. They cannot however exercise other procedures such as search and seizure of evidence unless the evidence is in plain view and is property of the establishment.
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