Sennen Cove Parking Scam (incorrect Number plate recorded week of 30th June

Le_Kirk

See my reply here: -
Today at 11:40AM

Mouse007

Seen and replied

zhonguonuren

I have just logged on and seen alerts.  Has this been dealt with?  I am in Hayle all the time so that’s an easy one for me.  

Let me know. 

zhonguonuren

Also happy to go to Sennen and get a parking ticket!  

Is this the company with the registered office in London?  I think it was moved from Cornwall because I asked to visit!  I can visit in London in September to check it complies with the DVLA requirements (it won’t).  

Fruitcake

Thanks for the offer of help zhonguonuren. What we need more than anything is a video recording of someone using the PDT machine and entering both a full and correct VRM to show the machine only permits three characters, and entering an incorrect VRM to show the PDT machine is not typo-proof.

I once noted a problem with a PDT machine at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, where random characters were appearing as I typed my VRM.
As people may or may not know, a touch screen is not actually a touch screen, in many cases it is a proximity screen. If you hover your finger over the screen, it will register its proximity and enter a character, even though you won't have actually touched the screen.
What happened in my case was that the buttons on my coat sleeve were triggering characters to appear that bore no relationship to the characters I was typing in.

Luckily for me the machine would not accept an incorrect VRM, the ANPR camera was at knee height next to and linked to the PDT machine so it could "see" my number plate, and the hospital trust ran their own parking scheme without infestation.
There was also an intercom built into the PDT machine that would connect you to a real person at all times if there was a problem.
This is how it should be done.

zhonguonuren

Fruitcake said:

Thanks for the offer of help zhonguonuren. What we need more than anything is a video recording of someone using the PDT machine and entering both a full and correct VRM to show the machine only permits three characters, and entering an incorrect VRM to show the PDT machine is not typo-proof.

Is Hayle ok or is it Sennen you need?

Fruitcake

I think it is any and all that are operated by Armtrac, including Rockpool if that is a different one. Any others run by different PPCs would be a bonus.

95Rollers

zhonguonuren said:

Also happy to go to Sennen and get a parking ticket!  

Is this the company with the registered office in London?  I think it was moved from Cornwall because I asked to visit!  I can visit in London in September to check it complies with the DVLA requirements (it won’t).  

I think the London address is just a mailbox rental centre. A few of the parking and debt companies have prestigious W1, SW1 and WC postcodes- but these are just mailboxes and no companies are physically based there. What is the London one for these guys? 

Umkomaas

95Rollers said:

zhonguonuren said:

Also happy to go to Sennen and get a parking ticket!  

Is this the company with the registered office in London?  I think it was moved from Cornwall because I asked to visit!  I can visit in London in September to check it complies with the DVLA requirements (it won’t).  

I think the London address is just a mailbox rental centre. A few of the parking and debt companies have prestigious W1, SW1 and WC postcodes- but these are just mailboxes and no companies are physically based there. What is the London one for these guys? 

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08087077

zhonguonuren

I wrote to IPC (hard copy) and then asked where it was storing my personal data.  Did you notice that IPC moved and so did Gladstones.  Gladstones in particular was a happy day when it had to move and also got a fine from the SRA 😊 .  It was at a golf club - I called the golf club. Come on Will and John - get your act together.  

I’ll pop along to Armtrac when I’m next in London.  They are giving Cornwall a bad name.  

If it is storing personal data there it had better be secure.  If it isn’t (which it isn’t) I would want to know where hard copies are stored.  I won with the ICO on that point.