Tesco Security Tag Not Disabled

Le_Kirk

My OH just had to take a jacket back to Tesco as they had "forgotten" to remove the security tag. It wasn't one of those that could be reset using a swipe from a magic wand but an actual black plastic tag held on with a pin - quite large and you would think difficult to miss. To be fair to the Tesco checkout operative they did look for a tag and said "oh there doesn't seem to be one" hence my comment about "forgot" being in quotes. Jacket was taken out of the store without setting off the alarm. Tesco were very nice and extremely apologetic about it when they removed it.

Paul_Varjak

agrinnall wrote: »

£4 is a fortune compared to the £1 bag of disposable razors that were tagged in one supermarket I shopped at .

When the 5p plastic bag charge was introduced recently, Tesco starting tagging their plastic bags...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tesco-plastic-bags-security-tagged-6602252

getzls

I have worked as a Security Guard at times in Tesco.
A fair amount of people leaving do set of the alarm.
I always said, did you buy any clothes?
Often the tags were very hard to find, once one had a label over it.
I assume the tag was put on at the time of manufacturing the item.

matttye

Security guards can detain under s24A PACE if they have reasonable grounds for suspecting someone to be committing or having committed an indictable offence.

Security guards have no powers of search and cannot seize your goods (although if they did it's unlikely the police would take any action if their only reason for doing so was to establish whether items has been stolen), but they can detain you at the shop pending police attendance. If you're innocent then you could just show them your goods and your receipt to prevent the need for your arrest.

Low value shoplifting under £200 is a summary only offence but still classed as an indictable offence for the purposes of PACE: see s176(6) Antisocial Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 - "(6)Any reference in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to an “indictable offence” has effect as if it included a reference to low-value shoplifting (as defined in section 22A(3) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980)."

BykerSands

matttye wrote: »

Security guards can detain under s24A PACE if they have reasonable grounds for suspecting someone to be committing or having committed an indictable offence.

Security guards have no powers of search and cannot seize your goods (although if they did it's unlikely the police would take any action if their only reason for doing so was to establish whether items has been stolen), but they can detain you at the shop pending police attendance. If you're innocent then you could just show them your goods and your receipt to prevent the need for your arrest.

Low value shoplifting under £200 is a summary only offence but still classed as an indictable offence for the purposes of PACE: see s176(6) Antisocial Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 - "(6)Any reference in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to an “indictable offence” has effect as if it included a reference to low-value shoplifting (as defined in section 22A(3) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980)."

Well done that was covered on page one and two. A real solicitor wouldn't have missed that.

matttye

BykerSands wrote: »

Well done that was covered on page one and two. A real solicitor wouldn't have missed that.

:rotfl:

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