Rod Ends
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 posted on 20/5/09 at 06:42 PM |
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More DVLA idiocy
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An innocent motorist was arrested, fingerprinted and held in a police cell for three hours
because his MOT certificate was the "wrong" shade of green.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5355439/Driver-arrested-over-MOT-certificates-shade-of-green.html
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COREdevelopments
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| posted on 20/5/09 at 06:53 PM |
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What a shower of shit!! I am an mot tester and have noticed certain batches of mot slips to be slightly lighter than others. Its all computerised any
how so they would know if its a bloody fake! idiots!
Rob
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r1_pete
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| posted on 20/5/09 at 06:53 PM |
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Agree it should be looked into if suspicious but surely a call to the issuing tester would verify its real, or even checking with VOSA its all online.
Just another example of how crap the computer systems are which are used to govern us are (I am a computer consultant).
He should also be compensated for his 3 hour incarceration, he is self employed so was deprived of work / income.
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Hellfire
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| posted on 20/5/09 at 07:05 PM |
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"In a situation where there is a potentially fraudulent document presented, it is our procedure to contact the police."
The cashier was only doing her job. I blame the Police department............
Phil
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craig1410
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| posted on 20/5/09 at 07:07 PM |
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That'll be another record of an innocent man on the DNA database for years to come...
[Edited on 20/5/2009 by craig1410]
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robinj66
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| posted on 20/5/09 at 09:16 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
"In a situation where there is a potentially fraudulent document presented, it is our procedure to contact the police."
The cashier was only doing her job. I blame the Police department............
Phil
Completely wrong - it was the Police who were only doing their job. In this instance they appear to have acted very quickly (believe me, 3 hours
detention is extremely fast for any police investigation).
I would say the fault lies with DVLA - they need to train their staff to a better standard and to change their procedures - as pointed out above, they
could easily have checked the information in this situation.
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