Loan shark hit with POCA order

An illegal money lender must pay back £40,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act

Lancs TS hits streets in ‘day of action’

Officers joined forces with other agencies to clamp down on illegal cigarettes

Cheshire East TS wins national award

The Cheshire East team have been recognised for their work to combat local loan sharks

Energy fraudster jailed for 13 years

A businessman who scammed his customers has been given a lengthy prison sentence

Salford TS seizes £400,000 of vapes

Salford Trading Standards has raided a business stocking tens of thousands of illegal vapes

Taking a stand against counterfeits

Behind the scenes of a multi-agency operation in the UK’s ‘counterfeit capital’

Lancs TS ‘wages war’ on illicit tobacco

Lancashire Trading Standards has succesfully prosecuted a trader who sold illegal tobacco

Bumper illegal tobacco haul

Officers from Bolton TS have seized one of the largest amounts of illegal tobacco ever

£130,000 of illegal tobacco destroyed

Blackpool TS has stubbed out thousands of illegal cigarettes with support from Op CeCe

TS ‘declares war’ on underage sales

A Preston shop that sold illicit cigarettes to a 14-year-old has been fined more than £4,300

Illicit vapes seized in Operation Vulcan

An investigation has resulted in the seizure of thousands of illegal vapes in Manchester

Major counterfeiting network hit

Rochdale Trading Standards has disrupted a multi-million-pound counterfeiting operation

Builder jailed for money laundering

A rogue builder has been given a custodial sentence after an investigation by Warrington TS

Salford seizes 80,000 illegal e-cigs

A haul of illegal and counterfeit e-cigarettes has been seized by Salford Trading Standards

Doorstep criminals sentenced

Faudsters who targeted the elderly have been sentenced following an NTS investigation

North West clamps down on rogues

A day of action in the North West warned locals of the dangers posed by rogue traders