Cherished Number Plates News

DVLA help catching council thieves

09 December 2008

An article in the Daily mail recently revealed that local district councils will be given the power to access the DVLA’s huge database in order to catch those damaging the environment. Those who may be found littering from their cars, fly tipping or creating noise pollution could be rooted out by their number plates from the DVLA database.

The new law was originally passed to allow for the identification of the owners of abandoned vehicles found, but has been recently used for catching those for the crimes mentioned above and many more. Members of the public can also note the registration numbers of vehicles they may have seen littering, speeding or fly tipping and report it to their local council office.

However many critics are claiming that this is another ‘big brother’ tactic to continue to spy on the all ready most watched country in the world.

Many see these new powers as an invasion of privacy and they fear councils may abuse these powers for other purposes.

However not everyone has a problem with this, at the end of the day there is still crimes being committed and those responsible deserves to be brought to justice. Besides if you are not committing a crime yourself you have nothing to worry about.