This blog is dedicated to understanding and sharing ideas about parking and road traffic enforcement. This blog is intended to foster debate and help understand the complex, and much maligned, process of parking and road traffic enforcement.
It is perhaps fair to say that no system of legal regulation involves more interaction between ostensibly normal citizens and the state that parking and road traffic enforcement. As drivers we received approximately 10 million notices last year as a result of parking, driving or owning our vehicle. This figure only applies to notices issued by state agencies (local government parking enforcement officials called 'Civilian Enforcement Officers' (CEOs), traffic wardens and police officers) the amount of those issued by private companies at present is unknown.
Owning a vehicle then creates a special relationship between state and citizen, one in which the citizen is frequently, in the words of Ella Fitzgerald, "bewitched, bothered and bewildered." I hope that as a result of visiting this blog over the coming months the bewildering aspect of parking and road traffic enforcement will lessen.
I hope that you will find information on here gives you a new appreciation of the difficulty of regulating road traffic and the difficulty of complying with all of demands made of us as citizens.
My interest in this topic stems from my research into the use of on the spot penalties in the justice system at Keele University. It is no exaggeration to suggest that road traffic fixed penalty notices and parking penalty charge notices are perhaps the most maligned of all on the spot penalties, understanding why and how the debate over traffic regulation takes place is incredibly interesting to me. I hope you will find something of interest for you as well.
Please do read on.
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