HARINGEY council has been cracking down and exposing traders that break the rules by selling knifes to the underage and dodgy cigarettes at London Trading Standards week.
Trading Standards teams gathered together across London to protect consumer and business for an ongoing week.
Police cadets aged around 15 and 16 were sent out by the Haringey council and the local Police team for a trial to go and purchase knifes which are by law age restricted. Having visited seven shops one of the shops sold a knife and thereby will prosecuted by the police.
They also targeting around 23 shops to test out if they sold knifes to a youngster underage in the past year. One of the sellers was fined £500 and another £500 for compensation.
In a mission to chase out rebel letting specialists additional checks were made in 40 home operators to ensure they were joined to Government-upheld plots and showed their expenses and charges. Two were found not to meet the required guidelines and they are currently under investigation with a view to indictment, which could hold a fine of up to £5,000 per offence.
The team were also on a hunt to check over the precinct, searching for illegal cigarettes – which can contain human defecation, asbestos, shape and dead flies and liquor. In one store in Wood Green they seized 1,300 cigarettes and 250g of hand rolling tobacco. With HMRC they likewise seized 200 cigarettes from a shop in North Tottenham. These shops are now at risk of having their permit suspended or renounced.
Cllr Peray Ahmet, Cabinet Member for Environment, said: “Not only do rogue traders cause real problems for legitimate businesses, but they can also lead to our residents buying unsafe and illegal products. Whether it’s tracking down illegal cigarettes or making sure youngsters can’t buy knives, the work our Trading Standards team does is vital to our borough.”
London Trading Standards week does not just on centred around illegal tobacco knife sales but also during the week they are examining cosmetics safety in shops. Making sure that ban chemical are not on shop selves.