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Bottle tagging call in bid to beat underage boozers - The Daily Record

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Title: Bottle tagging call in bid to beat underage boozers - The Daily Record
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Bottle tagging call in bid to beat underage boozers - The Daily Record: "TAGGING scheme that can trace a bottle of booze back to the sh...

Bottle tagging call in bid to beat underage boozers - The Daily Record: "TAGGING scheme that can trace a bottle of booze back to the shop and the person who bought it should be extended across Scotland, say Labour. 
The party's community safety spokesman James Kelly has called on the SNP government to extend a pilot scheme in Dundee to help crack down on underage drinking. 
Off-licences in part of the city are tagging bottles of alcohol so the buyer can be traced if they are later passed on to underage drinkers. 
Under the scheme, stores are given a unique code to mark bottles. 
If under-18s are then found with a tagged bottle by police, the buyer can be traced to a specific store and officers can use CCTV footage to identify who bought the alcohol. 
Supplying alcohol to the under-18s could lead to a fine of up to s5000 or a prison sentence. Kelly said: 'This innovative but simple approach will hopefully help bring to justice those peddling booze to young people." 
 
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