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Hero Award for loan shark campaign


A campaign in Runcorn to crack down on loan sharks has won a Hero Award

Richard Young

Posted 05 July 2019 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Updates|Hero Awards|North West


UPDATES: Operation Gripped wins a CTSI Hero Award for its partnership approach to tackling illegal money lending, combining policing, trading standards and community campaigns to expose loan sharks and promote safer borrowing.

Operation Gripped, a three-way partnership formed in Summer 2018, received this year’s prestigious Outstanding Trading Standards Initiative Hero Award from the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI), for raising awareness of the perils of using loan sharks in Runcorn, Halton.

Runcorn Local Policing Unit have been working alongside Halton Council Trading Standards and The England Ill...

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