Parking Issues (Leicestershire Police)

Today, the beat team attended a call in Desford of vehicles blocking a residential street. Luckily for the owner of the vehicle, we identified them and managed to get them to move their car minutes before our recovery agent was due to arrive to remove it for us! 

We have seen an increase in calls recently regarding these types of issues. Whether it be dangerous, illegal, causing an obstruction or just purely inconsiderate, parking is something that we are regularly called to for our assistance.

As a rule, Police don’t get involved with civil matters such as parking; however, we are always happy to assist our partner agencies in the first instance by offering words of advice or, in some cases, having the vehicle removed.

Reasons we may remove a vehicle: –

 🚨Vehicles that are parked on a junction or bend, impeding other drivers or pedestrians view of oncoming traffic

🚨Vehicles that are parked on the pavement and cause an obstruction by not allowing safe space for pedestrians to pass. We use a pushchair or wheelchair as a rule of thumb to gauge whether there is sufficient space.

🚨 Vehicles that are “double parked” and restricting access for emergency vehicles, or restricting other vehicles being able to leave their property.

🚔 Please take a second to think when parking your vehicle. If your vehicle is parked dangerously, Police are likely to attend and, if we can’t locate the owner quickly or the owner is not willing to move the vehicle, we will arrange for our own recovery agent to come and remove it. Doing this not only ties up one or more Police officers but will also incur a fee for the legal owner of the offending vehicle. These fees include a removal fee as well as a storage fee, charged at a daily rate. 🚔

Thank You.

MBP👮‍♂️