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Originally Posted by haydnwalker
<snip>We asked if there was anything she could do about it - but she said that she couldn't get the car towed as it was the Council's job now. She was very polite about it and said if she saw a warden that she'd mention it..
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The thing is, if your local authority has passed bylaws decriminalising parking offences within their area, there genuinely is nothing any police officer can do about it. It is up to one of the council-employed wardens to deal with it.
The police (or a traffic warden, by which I mean a proper one, not some scruffy git in a council-issue uniform) can, and do, still issue parking tickets in places where the council has not changed the law to prevent them.
They issue reams and reams of them down the road from us, at a popular local beauty spot where the entire length of road is a Clearway but loads of people still park.