Free Parking in Sunderland today

Looks like parking enforcement firms have seen an opportunity at the World Cup...keep an eye out for the match officials with a book of Penalty Charge Notices in their pockets!

A call has just come in from a Parking Attendant in Sunderland...it looks like free parking on the streets this afternoon with only 4 PAs on the street and the rest off home to watch the match.

The PCN count is going to be non-existent in the City soon, and the NCP managers are already screaming at the PAs to get more tickets.
DPE not revenue driven...my arse!
This has nothing to do with the free flow of traffic and everything to do with raising revenue for NCP.

Rumour has it that NCP think that 'Citizen Smith' (NCPs radio code name for Herron) has a radio or a scanner and that is why he knows which Traffic Regulation Orders are not in place and parks in areas where PAs have questioned whether to issue or not.

Sorry to disappoint NCP but it is not as complicated as that. You have two problems:

1. It is hot in our office and we have to have the windows open...and your new PAs have the radio turned up to full volume as they walk down the street from your base 50 yards away from our office...and we can hear everything. And yes I know that you have them using their mobiles to ring in and check but they have complained about the cost. I am sure the council will now check the call costs you now submit 'cos you have to ring them back on their mobiles with queries. I know it's unworkable and everyone's complaining and morale is low...but you came into this with eyes wide open.
2. You have more than one whistleblower within the DPE operation in the city. How else would we know about the conflict between the two managers? How else would we know about the final written warnings for a Senior PA mocking people with disabilities on a training course?
   We are aware of a ticket issued by a Senior PA to a woman taking her disabled child into a restaurant...at 5.45pm yesterday. A Blue Badge was clearly on display.
   Could it be that this was the same PA who was disciplined for using his wife's Blue Badge to get free car parking in one of the City Centre car parks while he was at work?

Days are numbered for all these companies that have filled their boots for so long.

Days are numbered for all the local authorities that have abused members of the public for so long and treated them with total and utter contempt. Just remember that Misfeasance in Public Office is a serious offence and there is evidence pouring in. It is no longer the little guy against the system but a growing movement of severely 'disillusioned' honest, hard-working individuals who are becoming better funded and more informed.

Civil Servants must remember thast it is they who work for us and we are not there to provide tax fodder for their incompetence and grandiose social engineering.

Keep the stories coming 'cos we know that we still have some good guys still in the system who have morals and principles.