Overview

• City of London Police’s PIPCU arrested five people for selling counterfeit shirts while West Yorkshire Police detained two more suspects.
• Border Force agents intercepted 2,793 counterfeit football items at East Midlands Airport during UEFA Women’s Euros operations.
• West Yorkshire Trading Standards and IPO officers recovered about 2,300 fake shirts in Leeds and Bradford under search warrants on June 26.
• PIPCU-led raids in Shrewsbury, Burton-on-Trent and Leek yielded 329 fake kits and 184 pairs of counterfeit socks.
• Detective Chief Inspector Emma Warbey said counterfeiting ranks second only to illegal drugs in criminal income and fuels money laundering, forced labour and safety risks.