Thousands could get parking ticket refund after police cock-up

By The Newsroom
Published 21st Aug 2015, 11:01 BST
Thousands of motorists could potentially have their parking tickets refunded after the city’s police force admitted it had issued as many as 16,000 notices in error.

Members of the public have paid more than £485,000 to the courts after being fined for illegally parking by Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) who did not have the power to give the tickets.

Assistant Chief Constable Andy Battle said it was only when the force reviewed PCSO powers five months ago that the error came to light.

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He said: “West Yorkshire Police carried out a review of PCSO powers in March 2015, at which time we discovered that PCSOs had not been correctly granted powers to issue non-endorsable Police Fixed Penalty Notices for parking offences.