Dear Ms Hetherington

We write in response to your Freedom of Information request below.  Please
see Wirral Council’s response embedded within your original enquiry.

1) Are Kingdom authorised by WBC to carry out their environmental
enforcement duties, and issue FPNs, for the offence of littering wearing
plain clothes/not in an identifiable uniform? -YES

2) Are Kingdom authorised by WBC to carry out their environmental
enforcement duties, and issue FPNs, for the offence of failing to clean up
after dog fouling wearing plain clothes/not in an identifiable uniform ? -
YES

3) ) Are Kingdom authorised by WBC to carry out their environmental
enforcement duties, and issue FPNs, relating to smoke free offences
wearing plain clothes/not in an identifiable uniform? - YES

If you have answered "yes" to 1 or more of these questions could you
please provide a link to the legislation/government or defra guidelines
permitting this use of covert surveillance.

Kingdom enforcement officers are permitted to dress in plain clothes for
the purpose of issuing of fixed penalty notices for littering / dog
fouling and other enforcement matters.

Neither the Environmental Protection Act 1990 nor The Dogs (Fouling of
Land) Act 1996 prescribes that an authorised officer must be uniform in
order to issue a fixed penalty notice when an offence has been witnessed. 

Yours sincerely

Lynette Paterson

Principal Information Management Officer

Business Management

Treasury Building

Argyle Street
Birkenhead
Wirral
CH41 1AH

[1]Tel: 0151 691 8201

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Dear Ms Hetherington

In response to your request for clarification, we can advise that the Council's answer to both questions is "yes".

Yours sincerely

Lynette Paterson
Principal Information Management Officer
Business Management

Treasury Building
Argyle Street
Birkenhead
Wirral
CH41 1AH

Tel: 0151 691 8201
[Wirral Borough Council request email]

This information supplied to you is copyrighted and continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse, for example commercial publication, would require our specific permission, may involve licensing and the application of a charge

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