During a visit to the store and supermarkets, the security guard can check the visitor's personal belongings. Specialists of the State Food and Consumer Service told whether such checks are legal and in what cases they can be carried out.

Do stores have the right to check personal belongings?.

The department noted that if you were approached by the owner of the establishment, the director, the security guard or the seller with such a requirement, demand to present the documents that are the basis for the search, because they do not have such authority..

“At the same time, if the guards have doubts or suspicions about a person, they can monitor the goods on the trading floor, as well as the actions of the buyer regarding this product using surveillance cameras (if any),” the State Food and Consumer Service emphasized..

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When can the police be called?.

The guard has the right to call the police, provided that:.

a frame went off at the exit from the supermarket;

security cameras recorded that the buyer stole something;

the buyers noticed the thief and reported it to the security guard.

If the security guard breaks the law, demanding to search the buyer's things without his consent and without the involvement of the police.

In accordance with Article 29 of the Constitution of Ukraine and Article 289 of the Civil Code of Ukraine, every person has the right to freedom and personal inviolability.

The State Food and Consumer Service noted that if a person is against the search, but the guard threatens or does not let him out of the store, you need to call the police.

Earlier we wrote that the rights of Ukrainian buyers are promised to be protected according to European standards..