1. OPERATION ICEMAN COLD CALLING – AT IT’S WORST

2. TRADING STANDARDS

4. Doorstep Crime is defined as Crime committed by doorstep callers
including
Bogus workmen
High pressure salespeople
Bogus officials
Distraction burglary

5. Doorstep Crime most commonly includes:
Traders knocking and offering work such as guttering, roofing, paving services.
Gardening or tree cutting services.
Taking deposits and not returning.
Charging prices which would not be 'reasonable'.

7. Obtaining Property by Deception
Distraction Burglary
Obtaining Property by Deception
Improperly conducted Property Repairs/Garden Maintenance
Unscrupulous doorstep selling of goods and services

9. Not giving cancellation notices out to consumers.
Taking consumers to banks/building societies.
'Hard sell' of products, causing fear to consumers.
Shoddy or poor work, causing consumers to pay out again.
Refusing to sort out problems.

15. ALISON FARRAR