Vehicle owners are being hoodwinked by a fake parking ticket scam that demands payment, and includes a £1-per-minute ‘phone information line’ for disputes. The tickets, which look almost identical to a genuine item, are being stuck onto legally parked cars. They demand £68, or £34 if the ‘fine’ is paid within 14 days. Tickets have been found in Cheshire and Staffordshire, issued by a company called Parked Vehicles Division Limited.
Month: September 2010
Half height turnstiles a secure access control method
A man stopped on a routine search by police was later found to have half-a-million pounds stuffed into a home-made void behind a toilet. When he was asked by officers what items he had in the car, Peter Wells admitted he had £80,000 in a holdall, which he said was for buying trousers. When he could not say where the large number of notes had come from, Wells was arrested on suspicion of money laundering.
Automatic bollards completely stop the majority of vehicles
Services across the board are facing swingeing government cuts, with Hampshire police bowing to the inevitable and getting rid of more than 1,000 jobs. Chief Constable Alex Marshall admitted he was trying to provide a service with his "hands tied behind his back." He said: "I know all our staff join the constabulary to do the best job they can and that the changes ahead will be difficult for everyone.
Total security solution for sites via modular barrier network
Signs warning people they were under police surveillance were described as something out of the novel ‘1984’. That is what Portsmouth city councillor Luke Stubbs evoked when he complained that the Beware, We Are Watching You sign was too close to the famous book which coined the phrase ‘Big Brother is watching you’. Police put up eight warning signs as a response to a series of criminal damage incidents in the south coast area.