Radio interviews on CCR 104.4FM
Essex Trading Standards
Interview with Alan Richards.
Essex Trading Standards on Chelmsford Community Radio 104.4FM. This page is the radio interview, kept so it can be found and listened to again.
Radio interviews (1)
City Talk
Monday, 23 September 2024
Interviewed by Nita Jhummu
The time now it's coming up to 20 minutes past 8 and it's time to welcome the first guest in Suit and IIT's Gidea. He is the Operation Manager for Essex Trading Standards. It's Alan Richards. Good evening Alan. Good evening, NATO. Thank you for inviting me. Thank you for coming into the studio this evening. And you're here from Essex Trading Standard. And I was reading that there's been an increase in doorstep crime. That's correct. What's your answer? Where some traders are knocking on doors, offering to fix routes, do people's driveways, gardening and offer high-high prices doing bad work. And basically cowboys and they're targeting vulnerable people. Yes, very much. We've definitely seen an uptick in complaints that we've received into our service. We're like, I guess fraudulent, tried the endorsed step crime. We're getting on a weekly basis. We seem to be getting new reports of…