County is winning the fight against rogue traders (From Herald Series)
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County is winning the fight against rogue traders
9:40am Wednesday 22nd August 2012 in News
Richard Webb
DOORSTEP crime in Oxfordshire has fallen by eight per cent in the last year.
The county bucked the national trend with a drop in reported incidents of rogue traders from 524 between April 2010 and April 2011 to 480 the following financial year.
The change has been hailed as a victory by the Trading Standards Service and Thames Valley Police .
Acting head of trading standards Richard Webb, left, said: “We are obviously approaching this in the right way to buck the national trend, but there is still a lot more work to do. “Behind every incident is a person and often the impact is much more than just financial.
“While it is very pleasing to see a small decline in the number of doorstep crime incidents, it is still worrying that there is more than one a day reported to us.”
lCall 0845 051 0845 if you have concerns about rogue traders.
