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OPC; DVLA ban lifted and still patrols Wolverhampton Retail Park!
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It seems that even though they get done, they can still carry on!
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/05/04/ban-lifted-on-car-park-company-in-fines-row/
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/05/04/ban-lifted-on-car-park-company-in-fines-row/
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What a lazy journalist , lost count on the number of times the invoice was called a fine!
And typical of the DVLA giving out our details to a company and director of said company have committed something akin to fraud! You just can't fathom the compempt this organisation has over our data!
It's ok convicted fraudsters pay us £2.50 a time, and we give them anything they want, disgusting behaviour !Excel Parking, MET Parking, Combined Parking Solutions, VP Parking Solutions, ANPR PC Ltd, & Roxburghe Debt Collectors. What do they all have in common?
They are all or have been suspended from accessing the DVLA database for gross misconduct!
Do you really need to ask what kind of people run parking companies?0 -
What a lazy journalist , lost count on the number of times the invoice was called a fine!
And typical of the DVLA giving out our details to a company and director of said company have committed fraud! You just can't fathom the compempt this organisation has over our data!
It's ok convicted fraudsters pay us £2.50 a time, and we give them anything they want, disgusting behaviour !
Yet if we, as members of the public, request keeper details from the DVLA, perhaps after accident, or to locate the new keeper after he bought the car with a dud cheque, the DVLA steadfastly refuses us that information...
It's time the DVLA was taken out of the hands of Crapita plc, and administered lawfully, as Parliament intended.0 -
Unbelievable - have OPC paid all their fines? - have they paid VAT on this illicit income? What about the people they took money from when they should not have - will they get their money back?
Presumably the BPA are happy to have officially certified crooks on their books - as long as they pay.
I wonder what on earth the DVLA's crtieria is for a complete ban and what the basis is for lifting this one. Grubby little business.0 -
And typical of the DVLA giving out our details to a company and director of said company have committed fraud!
iirc they haven't actually been done for fraud [libel laws and all that].Hi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why then you're as thick and stupid as the moderators on here - MSE ForumTeam0 -
Again iirc the fines were not for fraudulent activity but more for admin-y type of stuff.
As such, once they can show they've sorted out their admin the DVLA has a tough time refusing them access [even if they wanted to].Hi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why then you're as thick and stupid as the moderators on here - MSE ForumTeam0 -
Oopsadaisy wrote: »iirc they haven't actually been done for fraud [libel laws and all that].
Think this pretty accurantly says what fraud is
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fraudExcel Parking, MET Parking, Combined Parking Solutions, VP Parking Solutions, ANPR PC Ltd, & Roxburghe Debt Collectors. What do they all have in common?
They are all or have been suspended from accessing the DVLA database for gross misconduct!
Do you really need to ask what kind of people run parking companies?0 -
Pretty inaccurant wrt what they pled out to.
I'd venture the CPS didn't use your web-based definition when deciding what to do them for.
Are you actually saying that they were convicted of fraud???Hi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why then you're as thick and stupid as the moderators on here - MSE ForumTeam0 -
What I am saying is that whatever do is fraudulent, they know damn well that this is no mix up at the office, what they did is a concerted effort to mislead the public, hence fraud!
And besides that, this company acted in a criminal way hence the conviction, the director acted in a criminal manner hence the conviction, the dvla is now giving our information away to convicted criminals, the bpa is very silent about having criminals in their headline AOS scheme, why is that ?Excel Parking, MET Parking, Combined Parking Solutions, VP Parking Solutions, ANPR PC Ltd, & Roxburghe Debt Collectors. What do they all have in common?
They are all or have been suspended from accessing the DVLA database for gross misconduct!
Do you really need to ask what kind of people run parking companies?0 -
What I am saying is that whatever do is fraudulent, they know damn well that this is no mix up at the office, what they did is a concerted effort to mislead the public, hence fraud!
So, at the risk of repeating myself.... were they convicted of fraud.
I'm going to take a guess [from your reluctance to answer the question] that you know the answer to be no.
They pled to 36 counts of something or other [wrong signs, bad wording, etc] none of which were 'fraud'.
They will put them down as admin errors and so once rectified the DVLA would struggle to refuse access.Hi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why then you're as thick and stupid as the moderators on here - MSE ForumTeam0 -
Oopsadaisy wrote: »The [Debt Collection Company] pled to 36 counts of something or other [wrong signs, bad wording, etc].. They will put them down as admin errors and so once rectified the DVLA would struggle to refuse access.
Why is DVLA rejecting keeper information requests from decent, law-abiding members of the public?
The law says, in s.27 of the 2002 Regulations on access to registered keeper information...
"The Secretary of State may make any particulars contained in the [vehicle] register available for use...by any person who can show to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State that he has reasonable cause for wanting the particulars to be made available to him."
Yet the DVLA routinely refuses keeper information requests from the general public.
Those refusals are made solely on the basis that we are not members of an "Accredited Trade Association" of which Debt Collection Companies belong.
Yet section 27 of the Regulations makes no mentions of Accredited Trade Association membership.
The DVLA admits that it does not regulate the behaviour of these Debt Collection Companies.
The Agency admits that it has no codes of practice for information requestors and that there are no safeguards or limits in place to restrict the use of and protect personal data supplied by DVLA.
So why is the Agency refusing database access to members of the public?
Could it be because the DCCs are paying the Agency huge sums of money for access?
Once again we see that the DVLA, and Crapita plc, its private sector managers, are acting in an ultra vires manner.
Crapita plc runs all of the admin for the DVLA, in addition to overseeing other key agencies of Government, including TV licensing.
Crapita donated millions of pounds to New Labour to court political favour and to maintain its privileged status in Whitehall.
When there was a regime change from Brown to Cameron, many of us figured that Crapita would finally be booted from power.
Not so!
According to Private Eye, Crapita is back at the forefront of the political bribery business.
In August Crapita donated £1.5 million to the Tory Party.
Future bungs from Crapita are no doubt in the pipeline.
Newspaper cutting of 7 Apr 2011 from NETPOTS, a member of pepipoo.com,
Less than a month later, and Observices Parking Consultancy is forgiven by DVLA, its access to personal driver details re-instated.
It's back to business for both the DVLA and OPC, extorting and harassing the motorist!0
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