Written by John Kruse, one of the leading experts on Bailiff Law, this consumer friendly guide is essential reading for anyone who comes into contact with a bailiff.
The book is easy to understand and clearly explains the rights
a bailiff has, and also what they cannot do when collecting debts and repossessing goods etc.
How can anyone justify charging someone 20 30 40 80 120 quid for writing out a ticket, why do the police look at private parking companies with admiration,can i take it into my interest to be a private policeman ?
I'd doubt you would find the police admiring the private parking companies, but issues involving these companies are usually within the realms of civil law. But their tactics can be defeated easily. You just have to hold your nerve and don't give into their bluff and bluster that they will inevitably spout in their efforts to get their hands on your cash under the most dubious of circumstances.
Listen this pete, when i went down to the police station the best they could come up with is that if they didnt do me, the police could have done it, because apparently she said the law changed three years ago that it didn't matter if it was private land or not, any pc can issue a ticket, so i said well why don't the police patrol the private car parks, she said, there too busy....
I phone the Trading standards and they gave me the phone number to the British Parking association.... who all **** in the same pott and dont deal with the public...
The police don't like/admire them. When I was a police officer I hated them, they were a pain in the a** then, they are now.
What you will find, and something I could never fathom about my former colleagues, is that police officers are a notoriously lazy and idle bunch of workshy fops. If it's not easy or sexy enough then many PCs just can't be arsed. If they can reduce their workload by cuffing it as a 'civil debt' then they will.
It is up to you to insist that it is not. Make the cops work for you, they get paid enough. Insist that they obtain CPS advice, complain if needs be. Enough of the mechanisms employed by the state to protects consumers and everyday people are impotent and worse than useless. Don't let lazy officers turn the police into the next Trading Standards.
Pete
Pete, you will probably remember from your training that the amount you got on civil matters was minimal, so to say that officers are being lazy in not wanting to do anything is perhaps the wrong way of saying it. But if someone comes in and starts talking about a parking ticket they have received it is understandeable that straightaway they will think "civil matter" and advise accordingly. You may strike lucky with some who have had more experience with such matters, or some who may come to sites like this and have more knowledge, but I would think that would be a rarity.
I phone the Trading standards and they gave me the phone number to the British Parking association.... who all **** in the same pott and dont deal with the public...
Yeah the quality of TS is highly variable, but that is a particularly useless piece of assistance even for them. The BPA is just a PR front for the [problem]mers you are trying to complain about. They even admit as much on their website.
Why is clamping ruled to be...i quote...Ruled to be "extortion and theft" in Scotland since 1992, wheel clamping on private land was banned overnight...RAC Foundation - UK’s worst clamper
Justify
to be a private policeman ?
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by petej2811
