Parking on pavements: Fixed penalty notices issued

JS Dean made this Freedom of Information request to Merseyside Police

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From: JS Dean

30 July 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please supply me with the number of fixed penalty notices issued by
Merseyside Police for the offence of parking on the pavement. In
particular, I would like to know the figures for Wirral Police for
each of the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, and for the
first 6 months of 2009.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

JS Dean

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Merseyside Police

30 July 2009

Dear Sir/Madam

Reference No : CD91/09

Thank you for your application for information dated 30/07/09, received by Merseyside Police on 30/07/09. I note
that your are seeking information relating to:

Fixed Penalties Issued For The Offence Of Parking On The Pavement

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Carl Dewhurst
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Merseyside Police
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LIVERPOOL L69 1JD
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Merseyside Police

7 August 2009


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Dear Sir/Madam

Response Letter - FOI Application CD91/09

I write in connection with your request for information which was received
by Merseyside Police on 30/07/09. I note that you seek access to the
following information:

Information Re Fixed Penalty Notices Issued For Parking On The Pavement

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted within
Merseyside Police to locate information relevant to your request. I can
confirm that the information that you requested is held by Merseyside
Police.

To locate the information relevant to your request, searches were conducted
in the Central Ticket Office.
The searches located the records relevant to your request which are on the
attached response table.

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you, as
attached. Please find attached a response table.

(See attached file: CD91-09 Response Table.doc.dot)

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Yours faithfully

Carl Dewhurst
Disclosure Analyst
Merseyside Police
Information Bureau
Information Access Unit
PO BOX 59
LIVERPOOL L69 1JD
Fax: 0151 777 7099
E-mail: [Merseyside Police request email]

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From: JS Dean

20 August 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

JS Dean

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Laura Hall left an annotation (22 August 2009)

JS Dean, you need to ask Merseyside Police to provide a proper response.
You asked about parking on footways. There is only one offence of parking on a footway, in the UK which is in the Road Traffic Act 1998 : -
Section 19 Prohibition of parking of HGVs on verges, central reservations and footways
(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, a person who parks a heavy commercial vehicle (as defined in section 20 of this Act) wholly or partly—
(a) on the verge of a road, or
(b) on any land situated between two carriageway and which is not a footway, or
(c) on a footway,
is guilty of an offence.

Whilst you may not have had large vehicles in mind, you should have been given a response as this is specific to your question.
In addition to the Unnecessary Obstruction offence, what about wilful obstruction, another Fixed penalty offence, and indeed for most of the time you refer to in Wirral, unlawful waiting offences (double/single yellow lines) were enforce by police and would have been used in respect of cars parked on the footway alongside yelllow lines.
A proper answer to your question therefore is the statistics for the section 18 RTA 1998 offence and then a section 12 cost exemption, referring you to all the possibilities not just to one!

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