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NTS’s annual Consumer Harm Report highlights record prison sentences
Posted 12 October 2018 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Uncategorized|National
UPDATES: A new Consumer Harm Report highlights the scale of detriment prevented by Trading Standards while identifying emerging threats, including social media modelling scams, and the growing challenges facing consumers.
National Trading Standards (NTS) secured more than 100 criminal convictions and a total of 230 years of prison sentences according to new figures from the annual Consumer Harm Report. This represents a record in terms of length of prison sentences handed down.
The report reveals that NTS prevented more than £182m of losses to consumers and business in 2017/18, a rise of more than a t...
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