I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way to me again. He is being very generous.
We all know that a police officer who is involved in the issuing of a fixed penalty ticket will have been trained in the rules of evidence, and will know that the starting point should be a presumption of innocence. What assurances does the Bill give us that an accredited person will have been given similar training in our law? Does it contain any provision to prevent a local authority from putting an accredited person on a pay scale enabling that person to receive a bonus based on the number of tickets that he or she issues? In other words, might the accredited person have a vested interest in giving out tickets willy-nilly, even when no offence had been committed?
London Local Authorities Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Greg Knight
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 7 December 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills on London Local Authorities Bill [Lords].
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