2008-05-22 11:13:15 - Personallyyours.co.uk who is registered with the DVLA has been in the personalised number plate industry for twenty years. They provide private number plates, rare number plates, attend number plate auctions and buy cherished number plates.

Automatic Number Plate Recognition used to catch 'Rogue Traders'

The police are using their Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems to track down rogue traders who have had their number plates reported by the people that they have conned into having unnecessary work done on their homes.

These conmen simply knock on a victim's door and inform them that urgent work is needed,

they then will either over charge them, do a sub standard job or in most cases both, leaving their victims to pick up the mess left behind.

Operation Rogue Trader is being put in place by the police, and if people who have been conned or had someone try to con them, all they need to do is report the conmen's number plates and the Automatic Number Plate Recognition will do the rest, it makes no difference if the vehicles are not registered properly either. For once reported, the number plate is on the system.

Detective Inspector Jerry Dawson said: "Rogue traders cause a lot of misery to the people they take money from. They often prey on the elderly or vulnerable members of the community and scare them into agreeing to work by making false claims about the state of their homes.

"The anxiety and unnecessary distress caused by these individuals is unacceptable and we are determined to tackle this.

"Through this operation we want to send a clear message to rogue traders that they are not welcome in Wiltshire. Our activity will not be confined solely to this one day and rogue trading will be tackled all year round by officers committed to protecting the public from these cowboy traders."

Source [Gazette and Herald]



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