I RECENTLY wrote regarding police apathy towards car tax dodgers. Tonight, I actually thought Accrington police had had a rethink and had decided to act upon information received regarding a car displaying an expired tax disc (now six weeks out of date).

As the police van was parked directly across the road from the offending vehicle, I felt that this was a reasonable assumption to make.

Silly me! The police officer did not even notice that he was parked across from a car displaying an expired tax disc. What happened to the once renowned police vigilance?

Once upon a time you only had to be in the vision of a police officer on foot and he or she would be keenly looking at the windscreen for evidence of a current tax disc. Now, it seems that it is too much trouble and too time-consuming to even look.

Frankly, I do not know how the police have the audacity to ask for public assistance when it would appear that this is not a two-way process. The recent so-called campaign on clamping down on car tax dodgers is, in my opinion, a joke, or it would be if it was even remotely amusing.

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