Rogue traders have been active on a police patch close to the south Shropshire border, warn officers.
Officers in the Leominster area, which is in the same West Mercia policing region as Shropshire, say they have seen a number of reports in regards to cold calling rogue traders during the last week in and around their"patch".
"Or they may be jobs that we are unable to do ourselves due to lack of knowledge/tools or physically unable to carry out the task. "Money is exchanged - normally they like to deal with cash as its untraceable and they will pressure people to actually go to the bank to get the cash. After that they may come back and try to pressure you into having more work done, which is normally not needed, at a further cost. It is likely that there will be no paperwork to accompany this work.
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