I am employed as a plain clothed store detective for a well known household named retail company. I catch shoplifters on a daily basis and in 99% of the cases civil recovery is issued. I aint employed by b and q so quite frankly couldnt care about their losses but my advice is is pay. Most of you on here obviously dont know about civil recovery. It is a legal company that acts on behalf of retailers. In all my cases a civil recovery letter is given and copy signed by the detainee. Proof of a reciept is enclosed with all my paperwork along with cctv footage so if the detainee does decide to question what happened its all backed up. You could leave it and not pay but civil recovery do go through the courts and any costs that have occured for civil recovery to do that will be paid for by the detainee.

hi, i knw this is a very old thread but i'll make things pretty clear. i work for these so called clowns CP plus, at a morrisons car park. morrisons DO pay cp plus an annual fee to have the car-park patrolled. i wear a hi-visable car-park attendant coat so im clearly seen on the car park & patrol the car-park in putting car registration number plates into a hand held computer device. the device informs me if a car has over stayed by the MAXIMUM 2hours free stay time allocated for the car park, which then u get an extra 15minutes on top of that, so technically you get 2hours 15minutes free parking). i dont understand how you have recieved a ticket if you was only in the store for 10minutes, it should say on the ticket the time the attendant 1st seen your car and the time the ticket was issued. my only guess could be that you previously came to the store earlier in the day and returned to the store with-in 3 hours meaning the attendant thinks your viercle has overstayed in the car-park. The customers that shop in the morrisons where i work are regular and if they do intend to come more than once with-in 3 hours they will inform myself to avoild being issued with a ticket. my advice is, if you think or know that you have recieved a ticket unfairly then by all means fight it tooth and nail, but i can assure you that many people think CP plus is a small company and dont pursue a £15/£40 fine, but in actual fact they do. the car park attendant must of been a complete and utter ****hole i only give tickets out if customers overstay by more than 2/half hours parked in a resctricted area causing an obstruction if customers approach me who ive issued a ticket to i'll explain the situation & why the ticket has been issued, if they have caused an obstruction, parked in a restricted area or parked over 2 pays the fine will stay, if they have overstayed but have come and seen me, 9/10 i will voild the ticket there and then myself. CP plus car park attendants like myself, dont earn any commision or get any bonuses on the amount of tickets we issue. we are paid £5.80 per hour and thats it.

hi, i knw this is a very old thread but i'll make things pretty clear. i work for these so called clowns CP plus, at a morrisons car park. morrisons DO pay cp plus an annual fee to have the car-park patrolled. i wear a hi-visable car-park attendant coat so im clearly seen on the car park & patrol the car-park in putting car registration number plates into a hand held computer device. the device informs me if a car has over stayed by the MAXIMUM 2hours free stay time allocated for the car park, which then u get an extra 15minutes on top of that, so technically you get 2hours 15minutes free parking). i dont understand how you have recieved a ticket if you was only in the store for 10minutes, it should say on the ticket the time the attendant 1st seen your car and the time the ticket was issued. my only guess could be that you previously came to the store earlier in the day and returned to the store with-in 3 hours meaning the attendant thinks your viercle has overstayed in the car-park. The customers that shop in the morrisons where i work are regular and if they do intend to come more than once with-in 3 hours they will inform myself to avoild being issued with a ticket. my advice is, if you think or know that you have recieved a ticket unfairly then by all means fight it tooth and nail, but i can assure you that many people think CP plus is a small company and dont pursue a £15/£40 fine, but in actual fact they do. the car park attendant must of been a complete and utter ****hole i only give tickets out if customers overstay by more than 2/half hours parked in a resctricted area causing an obstruction if customers approach me who ive issued a ticket to i'll explain the situation & why the ticket has been issued, if they have caused an obstruction, parked in a restricted area or parked over 2 pays the fine will stay, if they have overstayed but have come and seen me, 9/10 i will voild the ticket there and then myself. CP plus car park attendants like myself, dont earn any commision or get any bonuses on the amount of tickets we issue. we are paid £5.80 per hour and thats it.