Bailiff help!

Fubar1_2

Where is the best place to complain about a bailiff's tactics/behaviour?

To cut a longish story short, I have been ill for a while and had no knowlege of a parking fine (otherwise I would have paid it when it was £30 of course). The first I know of it is when a bailiff puts a note through my parents door (previous ad) saying they want over £500 or they will take goods etc. So I contact local authority and Traffic Enforcement Centre to get to the bottom of it and they told me to submit an Out of Time Appeal. They also told me that the bailiffs should back off as a result of this appeal and illness but that it might be best if I contacted them to inform them of this.
Well, that phone call has left me in shock.
As soon as I mentioned Out of Time Statutory Declaration to him he completely changed and started threatening me. I told him I did not live at the place where the bailiff visited anymore and that I had been off work because of an illness. I said I was staying with my girlfriend who had been kindly helping to look after me.
He replied (I have shorthand): "Yeh, yeh, yeh, you are doing yourself no favours here. Give me her address. What's her address? We will track you down and we will trace you whereever you are....and we will get your stuff."
Been back on to the local authority about them and they insisted I should try and find an ombudsman but unapologetic that a firm they use behaves like this.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Hope this is the right part of the forum.

LilacPixie

I'm not very good on Bailiff's but another member, herbie21 is. Hopefully they will be along at some point

Meantime look here

Fubar1_2

Thanks. I will also do a search

Fubar1_2

Herbie21 wrote: »

The bailiff is being very naughty. He knows from the Warrant of Execution what address all notices would have been sent and he will also know from his computer full details of any past visits made and will be aware that you would not have received any notification of the PCN.

This complaint is by far the most common situation that our office deal with daily.

As soon as the Out of Time has been filed the Traffic Enforceent Centre will instruct the local authority and they in turn will instruct the bailiff company to cease all action.

They must do this BY LAW. This is provided under the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) which state very clearly that all enforcement action must cease until the matter had been determinded by the Traffic Enforcement Centre.

Can you please send me by private message only the name of the bailiff and the company he works for. I will search our database to ensure that he is certificated.

www.bailiffadviceonline.co.uk

Thanks for your help. I may get more sleep tonight! However, I doubt they will give up that easily. I just feel so sorry for my parents who have been dragged into this - they are pensioners and have been mortified by a bailiff turning up on their doorstep.
I will pm name btw

dotstar24

I hate bailiffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!