Motorists entitled to refunds over wrongly issued PCSO parking tickets

[Conniff]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/motorists-entitled-refunds-over-wrongly-issued-pcso-parking-203555260.html#4TDwUhA

 

 

Motorists may be entitled to refunds amounting to nearly £500,000 after Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) issued parking tickets without proper authority.

 

West Yorkshire Police said a search of its current records system, which goes back to 2006, showed about 16,000 parking tickets might be affected, totalling just over £485,000 paid to the courts. Other tickets may have been issued in similar circumstances for up to three years earlier.

 

Assistant Chief Constable Andy Battle said in a statement: " Police carried out a review of PCSO powers in March 2015, at which time we discovered that some PCSOs had not been correctly granted powers to issue non-endorsable police fixed penalty notices for parking offences.

 

"This was due to an anomaly in the way that powers can be allocated and meant in effect that some PCSOs were not empowered to give tickets issued to vehicles illegally parked.

Edited August 23, 2015 by citizenB

[TheBogsDollocks]

Complete bull that it's down to an anomaly. Since 31st March 2008, in most towns and city's the Police have only been able to issue parking fines for pedestrian crossing contraventions.

 

 

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3483/regulation/7/made

 

 

Shocking that those who enforce the law only became aware of the law change in 2015!!

 

 

Someone should FOI all the other Police forces and see how many other parking fines

have been unlawfully issued. West Yorkshire is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

[Tony P]

And they won't attempt to contact those who paid under duress, despite having their identity and details - only saying they will deal with submitted claims.

 

Anything to hold on to the ill-gotten cash!