Reforms will let badge cheats off the hook

Government plans to restrict the investigatory powers used by councils will make it harder to catch blue badge fraudsters, warns Ashley Brandon

Over the past few months local authorities have been eagerly waiting to see if the offences they enforce under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) will be scaled back.

Whilst RIPA has been used, perhaps questionably, for investigating matters as dog fouling and school catchment area cheats, it seems that some of the legitimate uses of this provision are being overlooked in the Home Secretary’s RIPA policy shake-up.

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