Nearly 80 motorists given parking tickets in High Street
Monday, 26th September 2011.
Scores of illegally parked motorists have been fined since the public forced police to continue their blitz on the town centre.
A total of 78 tickets have been issued in High Street in the last four weeks since police moved from 'education' by means of a warning notice to enforcement.
The response officers based at Haverhill police station are taking part in the blitz alongside those of the Safer Neighbourhood Team who have been implementing the initiative since June.
It was then that a public meeting of the SNT raised the issue and persuaded police to take it on as a priority.
The follow-up meeting earlier this month heard there had been over 400 warning notices issued as 'education' and, once Suffolk County Council had clearly repainted the yellow lines, some enforcement, with a total of 15 fines.
The discrepancy in numbers annoyed residents, who insisted the police should continue the activity as a priority, and not downgrade it as they suggested.
Since then over 60 tickets have been issed, and Sgt sarah Bartley of Haverhill SNT said the action would be continuing.
"There has been good and bad reaction," she said. "Some people have been brilliant, congratulating and thanking us, but then you get those who ask us if we've nothing better to do.
"We try to make a point of explaining that this isn't our choice, but what the public have asked us to do."
A total of 78 tickets have been issued in High Street in the last four weeks since police moved from 'education' by means of a warning notice to enforcement.
The response officers based at Haverhill police station are taking part in the blitz alongside those of the Safer Neighbourhood Team who have been implementing the initiative since June.
It was then that a public meeting of the SNT raised the issue and persuaded police to take it on as a priority.
The follow-up meeting earlier this month heard there had been over 400 warning notices issued as 'education' and, once Suffolk County Council had clearly repainted the yellow lines, some enforcement, with a total of 15 fines.
The discrepancy in numbers annoyed residents, who insisted the police should continue the activity as a priority, and not downgrade it as they suggested.
Since then over 60 tickets have been issed, and Sgt sarah Bartley of Haverhill SNT said the action would be continuing.
"There has been good and bad reaction," she said. "Some people have been brilliant, congratulating and thanking us, but then you get those who ask us if we've nothing better to do.
"We try to make a point of explaining that this isn't our choice, but what the public have asked us to do."
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