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Just read that the govt advise to motorists whose cars have been clamped by cowboy clampers can use the anti social law for recompense, my question is it true for traffic wardens can that be applied for them as well
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Your question isn't very clear but I doubt it. Cowboy clampers tend to operate, albeit in a pretty shoddy manner, on the invitation of property owners, landlords etc. in order to prevent illegal parking on their land. They often employ sharp practices and it is probably in such cases that the advice you mention relates. On the other hand I believe official parking attendants operate on behalf of the various local authorities and there is an official appeals system for anyone who feels they have a grievance. If you have such a grievance your best bet is to try that route I'd have thought.
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Wouldn't have thought so. My understanding is that wardens are employed by either the local council or the police authority, depending on where you are. If you're unhappy with a warden's behaviour I should imagine that there is some sort of statutory complaints procedure to follow, which of course you don't get with firms of clampers.
I have to say that some council wardens that I've come across do seem to believe that the uniform absolves them from normal standards of human behaviour. Trying to barge pedestrians off the pavement when on patrol is, I'm sure, not part of their duties, and when the warden is about 5'6" and the bargee (me) is a foot taller and about six stone heavier, it tends not to work, either :-)
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We only have one warden and her name is June. She is a decent sort, and I sympathise with her because her job brings her into contact with people who lose all standards of civilised behaviour when she tickets them.
I haven't met any bad wardens in the city (I don't go there too often) but I can imagine that they adopt a defensive attitude.
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Agree - I think most PA's are decent people who have to routinely take the sort of 'road rage' abuse us motorists come across from time to time and find quite unacceptable. IMO the worst abusers are those who refuse to admit or acknowledge they've done wrong. You know, the sort who would park on a double yellow simply because they're selfish and/or lazy and then go ballistic when they get caught - conveniently ignoring the fact that THEY were in the wrong.
Of course there are good and bad PA's but that's true of every walk of life and I wouldn't be a PA for any amount of money so I'm happy to give credit to those who do because without them there'd be anarchy on our streets.
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