Police during illegal tobacco joint operation with Trading Standards. (Image: West Mercia Police)
SHOPS selling illegal tobacco are being targeted today by police and trading standards.
West Mercia Police took part in a joint operation in place in Lowesmoor, alongside Worcestershire Trading Standards.
Joint operation with @WorcsTS and Worcester City Centre team targeting shops selling illegal tobacco in Lowesmoor #PolicingPromise pic.twitter.com/M8YnueL4rV
— Worcester SNTs (@WorcesterCops) February 1, 2023
Illegal tobacco can include “illicit white” cigarettes that have no legal market in the UK, counterfeit cigarettes that are illegally manufactured and genuine cigarettes smuggled into the UK without duty paid.
More to come.
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