Camden Council have fined just six motorists for falsely displaying a disabled blue badge - despite seizing 162.
Blue badge fraud is rife in London with passes being sold for up to £2,000 and costing local authority untold amounts in lost parking revenue.
The Audit Commission estimates each blue badge used fraudulently costs taxpayers as much as £5,000 a year.
London Councils and Transport for London say lost, stolen and fake badges are increasingly being used by ineligible motorists.
A new database was launched two years ago allowing traffic wardens access to a list of lost or stolen badges and to issue cheats with parking tickets or have vehicles towed away.
In the latest crackdown by Camden Council and parking contractor NSL and the Vehicle Crime Working Group over 2,000 disability passes were checked and nearly 200 seized.
Six fit and healthy motorists were prosecuted for illegally using disabled parking permits and fined a total of £3,522 for abusing the blue badge system, while 57 cases have been referred to the Council’s legal department for further action.
2 comments:
The decision to fine people comes from the courts, not the council.
Of course, I was talking about the council's slowness in getting them to the courts.
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