Too many barbers?

[orpingtoneagle]

Cash only barbers, hmm.

It's slo clearly dodgy yet just allowed to carry on for years. Scandalous

It's virtually impossible to stop. You raid them and take away a van full of contraband and within an hour it's restocked.

You send bills to the company running it and that company disappears to be replaced by another.

It is is just another version of every dodgy scam shop that has existed over the years...

Police/local councils/HMRC/trading standards do not have the powers or resources to stop it.

 

[Mattconrov]

Forget the conspiracy theories the answer is simple they are just the new way to sell dodgy fags and counterfeit goods.

Also black market imported drugs where you don't need a prescription.

I think you've just created a new conspiracy theory. Lol

 

[PalazioVecchio]

simply go in there a minute or two before they close & simply rob the place, these joints must be stacked with cash, drugs & firearms

My image of those barbers is empty cashless husks.
And every few hours a lad walks into the local bank with another magic suitcase of cash...."i just trimmed a load of beards there boss, honest, now lodge it please Nigel, the usual account"

No smell of drugs in the barber shop.....is my guess. And Tony Soprano never smelled of garbage disposal.

 

[HKOwen]

It's virtually impossible to stop. You raid them and take away a van full of contraband and within an hour it's restocked.

You send bills to the company running it and that company disappears to be replaced by another.

It is is just another version of every dodgy scam shop that has existed over the years...

Police/local councils/HMRC/trading standards do not have the powers or resources to stop it.

So if a shop is caught red handed selling illegal goods such as drugs, illegal vapes, stolen goods etc it cannot just be closed and boarded up? If this is so, the laws and powers need to be changed immediately and one agency tasked with this problem which will likely cover areas such as criminal activity, immigration and employment offences.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

So if a shop is caught red handed selling illegal goods such as drugs, illegal vapes, stolen goods etc it cannot just be closed and boarded up? If this is so, the laws and powers need to be changed immediately and one agency tasked with this problem which will likely cover areas such as criminal activity, immigration and employment offences.

Why sell drugs in a shop ? Especially when u can sell them around the corner in total anonymity ?

 

[Joseph Paxton]

So if a shop is caught red handed selling illegal goods such as drugs, illegal vapes, stolen goods etc it cannot just be closed and boarded up? If this is so, the laws and powers need to be changed immediately and one agency tasked with this problem which will likely cover areas such as criminal activity, immigration and employment offences.

The much-maligned BBC has done an extraordinary amount of good work on this recently with some brave Editors and Reporters prepared to go undercover on multiple high streets across the country to expose what really funds these mini-marts/vape/barber/nail bar establishments.

It's not going unnoticed at highest levels of new govt. Bravo

Councils to get more powers to stop vape and betting shops, PM announces

Prime Minister Andy Burnham says town centres have been "hollowed out" by decades of decline.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[HKOwen]

Why sell drugs in a shop ? Especially when u can sell them around the corner in total anonymity ?

Well documented many such shops supply drugs, same as petrol stations. Not sure standing on a corner is not going to be noticed.

 

[DanH]

The much-maligned BBC has done an extraordinary amount of good work on this recently with some brave Editors and Reporters prepared to go undercover on multiple high streets across the country to expose what really funds these mini-marts/vape/barber/nail bar establishments.

It's not going unnoticed at highest levels of new govt. Bravo

Councils to get more powers to stop vape and betting shops, PM announces

Prime Minister Andy Burnham says town centres have been "hollowed out" by decades of decline.

www.bbc.co.uk

It’s exceptional proper journalism. But no one on here will give them any credit for it.