Officers monitor the quantity, price, description and quality of goods and services. They visit retail premises such as shops, pubs, restaurants, hotels and garages and check goods, prices, descriptions and signs.
Any weighing or measuring equipment such as scales, used to determine the price of goods, are also checked for accuracy. In pubs, samples of spirits are taken to check for watering down or substituted brands. Petrol pumps are checked for accuracy.
A variety of traders are visited including estate agents, to ensure accurate descriptions and dimensions of property are used, and jewellers to check that items described as gold, silver or platinum, are correctly hallmarked. |