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Haha brilliant, not quite sure how the charge of obstructing police can stick if the vehicles where not obviously police cars though?
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I.m no fan of clampers but if the cars were parked in a private area with warning notices then the guy is just doing his job.......what the landowners pay him for, however unpopular that is.
The police spokesmen said the cars were not ' left ' but if there were officers with the cars, then I would not imagine any clamper would risk it !
Smacks a little of ' We're the Sweeney....you're nicked ' !
Ted
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...The police spokesmen said the cars were not ' left ' but if there were officers with the cars, then I would not imagine any clamper would risk it !...
That's what I thought.
The police, on their own account, were doing pre-visit security checks.
As the clamper wandered up, why didn't one of the coppers wave his warrant card and send him away?
The job was not time critical in terms of seconds, and the copper need only have said 'police business' so as not to give anything away.
Something doesn't quite add up.
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If the police were near the cars maybe he failed the attitude and common sense test by clamping them anyway.
Last edited by: Old Navy on Fri 27 May 11 at 17:28
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Seems he didn't have a SIA card either....
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The quote from the company explains it a little:
Shoal Enforcement said: "A plain-clothes police officer produced his warrant card and requested that both vehicles be released.
"Our member of staff confirmed he would release the vehicles if the police officer would provide confirmation that he was on duty.
"The police officer declined and arrested our member of staff for obstruction.
"There were no officers in the vehicles at any time during the incident and our member of staff was correctly displaying his SIA licence."
However, the company is clearly saying the vehicles were unattended when the clamps were put on, so somebody is telling porkies.
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Wheel clamper arrested - RattleandSmoke
