FOI request detail

Parking tickets issued to vehicles following terrorist attack in Borough Market

Request ID: FOI-0625-1718
Date published: 06 July 2017

You asked
Please provide the following information. Following the terrorist attack in Borough Market in June 2017, it is reported that parking tickets have been issued to vehicles left within the area of the police cordon. 1. How many tickets were issued? 2. What is the total value of the tickets? 3. Please provide a copy of any instructions which were issued to parking enforcement officers about whether they should issue tickets to vehicles left within the area of the police cordon?

We answered

Our ref: FOI-0625-1718/GH

 

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 7 June 2017 asking for information about Parking tickets issued in Borough Market. I am sorry for the delay in replying.

 

Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy. I can confirm that we do hold the information you require.

 

We unreservedly apologise for our insensitive mistake. These fines should never have been issued and were all immediately cancelled.

 

Please see below our responses to the specific questions you have raised:

 

  1. How many tickets were issued?

27 PCNs were issued in the Borough/London Bridge general area, which were all then cancelled.

 

  1. What is the total value of the tickets?

All 27 Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) issued were cancelled on the day of issue so had no value.

 

3. Please provide a copy of any instructions which were issued to parking enforcement officers about whether they should issue tickets to vehicles left within the area of the police cordon?

 

On 7th June, the area was patrolled by PCSOs from Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) who undertake parking enforcement activities on our behalf. For information on what advice the PCSOs were given on the day you would need to ask the MPS. While we substantially fund the RTPC and work in partnership with them, TfL are not directly involved in their staff briefings.

 

In addition, the area was patrolled by six TfL Roads and Transport Enforcement Officers (RTEO’s). No specific instructions were issued to RTEO’s regarding the issuing of tickets. RTEOs are employed by TfL to help keep London’s streets moving safely and smoothly. Some of the ways they do this are by engaging with the public, moving on vehicles which are causing an obstruction, and issuing PCNs when necessary. RTEO’s were sent to Borough High Street to assist with traffic flow and congestion as a result of road closures in the area.

 

If this is not the information you are looking for please do not hesitate to contact me.

 

If you are not satisfied with this response please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Graham Hurt

FOI Case Officer

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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