Through its Parking Code Of Practice & Training Vision (PCP&TV) the United Traffic and Parking Association (U.T.P.A) is working to ensure the ‘best practice and service’ for people and organisations receiving and operating parking control and enforcement on public and private land.

This includes regulating vehicle immobilisation, ticketing and removal.

All members of the U.T.P.A’s PCP&TV will agree to support and uphold the principles of the Code. To become a member, parking operators must confirm that they have systems,
procedures and training in place to ensure that substantial compliance with the Code is
possible, likely and embedded within the culture of their organisation.

 

The U.T.P.A wants to regulate vehicle immobilisation and the removal of vehicles on
public and private land. Under U.T.P.A rules and proposals, operators must apply to the U.T.P.A and gain a licence. Ultimately, it should be a criminal offence to work in vehicle immobilisation or removal without a licence.

The U.T.P.A is also lobbying to help regulate on-street or off-street car parking control and enforcement led by local authorities. This is covered by detailed statutory control and regulation which can include:

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By proposing this Code, the U.T.P.A has set out the minimum standards by which parking operators will be judged by anyone coming into professional contact with them. Members of the public should be able to expect that operators keep to the law and act in a professional, reasonable and diligent way.

Conditions

When you apply for U.T.P.A membership you must sign a declaration and agree to keep to the Code and its principles. To stay a member of the U.T.P.A you must keep to the conditions of the Code. If you do not keep to the conditions of the Code then U.T.P.A may take disciplinary action against you.

Under the Code you must keep to all the requirements laid down by law.

It is also a condition of the Code that, if you receive and process vehicle or
registered keeper data, you must be registered as a data controller under the relevant information technology acts in your specific country.