The Editor, Sir:

It has been observed that motor vehicles which are parked in various sections of the streets in Mandeville are being clamped by the Municipal Police.

The question is what is enshrined in our laws in this regard? Have the requisite and necessary amendments to the Town and Communities Act or the Road Traffic Act been made so as to empower those individuals involved in the clamping of vehicles and collecting of fines to remove the clamp?

These actions appear to lack due process as who charges, imprisons and collects are the same persons. If a violation is committed why not issue a ticket and then have the ticket enforced?

Your comments, Attorney General, will be appreciated.

In the meantime, I would love to see the implementation held in abeyance until the process of permit parking is fully explored, the public properly advised and the method of payment made more convenient to all who would want to access paid parking in the environs of Mandeville.

I am, etc.,

A.A. McCREATH

Mandeville