Cameras for kids buying booze
The fight against under-age drinking in Lichfield and Burntwood has been boosted by a £4,500 state-of-the-art undercover camera.The fight against under-age drinking in Lichfield and Burntwood has been boosted by a £4,500 state-of-the-art undercover camera. Young testers sent into shops and bars to ask for alcohol will now be fitted with the new buttonhole camera. The equipment, worth £4,500, was bought with Government funding and will be used by police at pubs and clubs and by Trading Standards officers at off-licences and supermarkets. Read the full story in the Express & Star
The fight against under-age drinking in Lichfield and Burntwood has been boosted by a £4,500 state-of-the-art undercover camera.
Young testers sent into shops and bars to ask for alcohol will now be fitted with the new buttonhole camera.
The equipment, worth £4,500, was bought with Government funding and will be used by police at pubs and clubs and by Trading Standards officers at off-licences and supermarkets.Licensing officer Sergeant Mark Czechowski said: "It will act as a deterrent to those who may want to think about selling to children.
"Responsible licensees have nothing to fear."
Staffordshire Trading Standards officers have carried out 18 test purchases since last April across Lichfield district and there were four failures, who all received fines.
Brandon Cook of Trading Standards said: "I would remind parents and adults that it is an offence to buy alcohol for people under the age of 18.
"An awful lot of the alcohol they get has been bought for them by their parents to take out with them, and it is often vodka.
"It is getting children into bad habits at a very early age and it leads to anti-social behaviour, which blights everybody."
