
Box ticking in government agencies.
A car is parked across the road from our house. It has been there for a couple of weeks and does not move. The rear off-side tyre is flat. Today I investigated and found that it is declared SORN and its last MOT expired in May 2022. I phoned local plod on 101 and worked my way through menus and sub menus until I was starting to lose the will to live. Eventually told I was in a queue to be answered of a length where I was afraid I might be dead before someone picked up my call.
I decided as I would shortly be driving past the cop-shop I would report it in person so I hung up the phone. In the cop-shop was rewarded with total disinterest. Told that if the car was driven and picked up on an ANPR camera they would take action. Reported the car to the local authority as an abandoned vehicle. They responded that they would not act until the car had been there for at least three weeks and that it was legal to park a car which had no MOT on the public highway. That is flat not true.
Shortly afterwards I had an email from them saying they were very pleased to report the problem had been resolved and not to reply to this message as it was from an unmonitored email account! You couldn’t make it up. I have now reported it to the DVLA who have stated that they will look into it but I won’t hear back details of any action taken.
Without doubt these organisations will each publish stats showing a problem satisfactorily resolved.
Sorry I can’t think of an appropriate link but if a fellow cunter can supply such I would be grateful.
Nominated by : arfurbrain.



