Thanks for your reply Jonchris. I understood that whether I paid or not the details would be put on their data base. It is a shame there is not enough advice about this on these forums, perhaps you could make it clearer for us! It is also a pain when you try and research and most of what you read is forum members having a go at each other rather than addressing the issue at hand.What do you suggest, if anything, I do now or should I just leave this matter alone now?

Hi there, my first post so be gentle with me. My wife was "apprehended" when leaving the local Tesco's . I won't go into detail but the Police were called and she was issued with a FPN of £80. A week later we received the letter from RLP demanding £137.50, due to "a wrongful act being committed. I was not too sure about this letter so I decided to do a bit of investigation and ended up here on this forum. After reading several threads about RLP I decided to write to them. I opened my letter by stating that a FPN was not an admition of guilt and, whilst I admit there would of been some administrative costs involved, the fact that no goods were opened or damaged in any way, I felt £137.50 was excessive and I sent a cheque for £70 and asked them to accept this as full and final settlement of this matter. I have today, exactly one week later, received a reply from RLP, with a lot of legal quotations and reasons why their costs were set so high, ACCEPTING my payment of £70 and the matter is now concluded. May I take this opportunity to thank everyone that posts on here and just advise anyone in the same position as I was to write, being courteous and fair,and hopefully your case will be dealt with the same.