Protecting staff must be a priority for the parking sector

Politicians and the media use language that encourages hostility toward parking staff, argues NSL’s Graham Williams

Press and television coverage of parking often demonises parking staff as ‘pirates’ and ‘cowboys’, creating a hostile climate that makes abuse and even violent assaults on parking staff more likely. 

Politicians and the press have to stop demonising the parking sector as this creates a hostile climate for front line staff, a gathering of politicians was told last month. The use of inflammatory language vilifying and demeaning parking patrol officers by those with a...

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