A police officer who is refusing to pay a parking charge notice (PCN) says he "will not allow" the parking firm "to intimidate me or bully me”. Joseph Etele, a response officer from Hampshire, assumed the car park at Havant Health Centre would be free when he attended a medical appointment.
However, the 43-year-old was sent two charges by company Smart Parking, which owns the car park outside the health centre, for not typing in his registration details into the ticket machines. While parking is free for those attending health appointments, users are required to provide their number plate.
Joseph said in quotes reported by Hampshire Live: "The first time I tried their tablet it wouldn’t work for me at all – I asked the receptionist and he said 'don’t worry about it'. A couple of weeks later I went in again in another vehicle – I tried both tablets on that occasion and couldn’t get it to work.
