A crackdown on the fraudulent use of the Blue Badge parking scheme for disabled people is set to be extended to Newham and other London boroughs following a successful pilot scheme which saw more than 90 fake or stolen badges seized in four neighbourhoods.
The pilot scheme involved five boroughs pooling information about 12,000 Blue Badges which had been reported lost or stolen in one database. Council parking attendants from the boroughs, Transport for London and the police could easily check whether Blue Badges they saw displayed on vehicles had been stolen or were fakes.
Currently, each local authority keeps its own records but is unable to check details on Blue Badges displayed by offenders which had been issued in other boroughs.
That's ridiculous. There should be a nationwide database, funded by selling offenders' vehicles.
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