Paul James suggested:"They would have gone through the bags to find evidence of whose it was."I very much doubt that somehow, for three reasons.a) They currently don't have enough time to do the job they're actually supposed to do. Namely empty bins into the back of a truck on the designated day.Never mind sort through bin bags on the pavement b) Assuming these people can actually read English this assumes that this rubbish or recycling actuallycontains material which might help identify them i.e utility bills.c) The procedure you're referring to is sometimessuggested as being successful in identifying fly tippers. How successful it actually is, as againstits propaganda value as a deterrent, as with TV detector vans, I'm not aware as there are no published statistics. And the conviction ratefor fly tippers would suggest that it's not very successful at all. As against say CCTV footage. The point about Fixed Penalty Notices is that they're issued when there's clear evidence, say by way of timed photographs and information from the DVLR as to ownership, that an offence has indeed been committed. In most if not all cases here, in the absence of say CCTV footage there is no evidence.My attitude to local politicians is simply stated.No doubt many people enter local politics out of a sense of duty to the community. However in an environment where the only way to win elections is by appealing to the voters greed by not increasing theCommunity Charge, for many honest people theremust come a point where their sense of duty to the community must take second place to their willingness to lie through their teeth. Basically when times are good there's more than enough to go around and meet election promises and meet voters aspirations.When times are hard is necessary to lie and that'swhen the more seasoned liars, spivs, and flannelmerchants come into their own. So that far from bring the smiling, caring, sharingpublic spirited servants of the people they'dlike us to believe they are, in threatening theirown constituents with interviews conducted underPACE* Mahfouz and co. are simply showing themselves up for the little tin-pot dictators some of them would so clearly love to be.Like many people no doubt I'd like to conduct interviews under PACE conditions; the more "robust" the procedure the better in fact. However in this caseit wouldn't be my fellow Council Tax payers who'd be getting fitted up with the electrodes.michael adams* a totally hollow Threat by the way.Basically the Council need to produce sufficient evidence before bringing a case to Court and in civil cases nobody is obliged to attend interviews beforehand. Basically in order to conduct a fishing expeditionin the witness box in Court, its first necessary for the Council to get the defendant there by some other means
Michael Adams ● 3390d