Richmond Council bans CCTV parking penalty cars

[borisbeaver]

Richmond Council bans CCTV parking penalty cars

 

Four CCTV camera cars which were involved in more than 18,500 wrongly-issued parking fines being handed out have been banned by Richmond Council.

 

The decision to remove the cars was taken at a meeting on Thursday.

 

In July, the south-west London council agreed to pay out about £1m in wrongly issued penalty charge notices issued between April 2009 and April 2011.

 

A tribunal found the notices were unlawful as the cameras on them were incorrectly licensed.

 

'Menace to people'

The independent Parking Tribunal Service made its ruling after a motorist appealed against his penalty charge.

 

Ahead of the meeting, the leader of the council Lord True said: "These CCTV cars have been a menace to people for years and I for one will be glad to see the back of them.

 

"Councils should not be in the business of trap now, talk later. Many people see them to be an arbitrary and impersonal way of dealing with parking issues.

 

"The tactics used create the impression that councils are interested only in money."

 

The council said parking enforcement officers would interact with motorists rather than monitoring them from a "spy car".

[green_and_mean]

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?327732-Richmond-dump-CCTV-spy-cars

 

Same story half way down the forum!!

[borisbeaver]

Ah Yes, but that was the evenin' stannit and this ones the bbc!

[green_and_mean]

Ah Yes, but that was the evenin' stannit and this ones the bbc!

 

and posting duplicate news stories pushes people threads that are actually looking for help off the first page!