Vehicle removals (FOI)

Request

Can you supply the following information please:

A

How many cars have been moved from one location to another by either parking control officers or third party companies on behalf of parking control in the past five years? Can this information be provided by year totals?

B

Out of the volume answered in question 'A' how many of these cars where moved with no permission given by the owners of the cars in question?

C

Can you please provide me with the process that parking control will follow when the need arises to have a car moved from any location?

Response

A

The States of Jersey do not record this information.

B

The States of Jersey do not record this information.

C

The reason(s) why Parking Control may need to move a vehicle to another location are usually:

(a) due to the vehicle being impounded for being parked illegally

(b) to enable safe working inside a car park and / or to avoid any possible damage to the vehicle by works being carried out.

If movement is required in relation to (b), Parking Control will attempt to make contact with the registered keeper of the vehicle to request that it is moved. However, where they are unable to make contact by phone and there is insufficient time to write to the registered keeper the vehicle will be moved in a safe manner to another section of the parking area.

Any vehicle moved, whether it be for (a) or (b), will be moved in accordance with the requirements set out under the Road Traffic (Removal of Vehicles) (Jersey) Order 1963.

Road Traffic (Removal of Vehicles) (Jersey) Order 1963