Reporting touting and illegal cab activity
Licensed and law abiding taxi and private hire drivers and other members of the public often have valuable information on touting and other cab-related offences across London.
If you have information then please let us know. Such information is valuable in helping our Safer Transport Command tackle the problem.
What is touting?
- Any private hire vehicle that isn't booked, isn't legal and isn't safe
- Only taxis (black cabs) can be hailed and can pick up customers on the street without a booking
- If a private hire or minicab driver approaches you on the street or accepts your journey without a booking it is illegal, even if the driver is licensed by TfL
Drivers that tout are committing a criminal offence under the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. Drivers arrested and charged with touting are also charged with having no valid insurance (for carrying passengers).
Drivers that tout for business are commonly referred to as touts, illegal cabs or unbooked minicabs.
Reporting
If you have information about touting or other illegal cab activity, please use this form. Alternatively, you can call 0845 300 7000 or email ltph.enforcement@tfl.gov.uk. When submitting a report, please provide as much detail as possible about the incident or issue.
Please note you should not use this form if you are reporting a specific crime or require a real time response. If you are reporting a crime or require a response then you should report the incident directly to the Metropolitan Police Service on 0300 123 1212 (24 hour). In an emergency call 999.
Why Not give it a go
Of course, the real reason this has been introduced now is to make it easier for Grant "Badginosis" Davies to lodge false accusations against every yellow badge he sees driving empty towards their home in Bermondsey. (According to Mason's recent press release about the four reasons a yellow badge might be in Central London, living there isn't a good enough reason.) These will of course be followed up immediately while every accusation against Mason's beloved minicabs will sit in an inbox until it "accidentally" gets deleted.
ReplyDeleteThis is Mason passing the buck again saying
ReplyDelete"Nothing to do with us, we just sell license and then your on your own. You mugs"
In the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 Section 167 (1) TOUTING, it states.
ReplyDeleteSubject to provisions in the section, it is an offence in a public place, to solicit persons to hire vehicles to carry them as passengers.
This is what the Clipboard Jonnies are doing.
Enforce The Law, Stop the Rapes, Demo or Die !
Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33)
ReplyDeleteTaxi touts
SECTION 167 Touting for hire car services.
(1) Subject to the following provisions, it is an offence, in a public place, to solicit persons to hire vehicles to carry them as passengers.
(2) Subsection (1) above does not imply that the soliciting must refer to any particular vehicle nor is the mere display of a sign on a vehicle that the vehicle is for hire soliciting within that subsection.
(3) No offence is committed under this section where soliciting persons to hire licensed taxis is permitted by a scheme under section 10 of the [1985 c. 67.]
Transport Act 1985 (schemes for shared taxis) whether or not supplemented by provision made under section 13 of that Act (modifications of the taxi code).
(4) It is a defence for the accused to show that he was soliciting for passengers for public service vehicles on behalf of the holder of a PSV operator’s licence for those vehicles whose authority he had at the time of the alleged offence.
(5) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(6) In this section— “public place” includes any highway and any other premises or place to which at the material time the public have or are permitted to have access (whether on payment or otherwise); and “public service vehicle” and “PSV operator’s licence” have the same meaning as in Part II of the [1981 c. 14.] Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981.
(7) In section 24(2) of the [1984 c. 60.] Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (arrestable offences), after the paragraph (i) inserted by section 155 of this Act there shall be inserted the following paragraph— “(j) an offence under section 167 of the [1994 c. 33.] Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (touting for hire car services).
Anon 19:37
ReplyDelete.....but a yellow badge returning home to Bermondsey should not have his hire light on or stop for passengers beyond his licenced Borders. If he / she is not plying for hire illegally they should have nothing to worry about.
Really can't understand what your worries are unless you've been touting for so long on the way home that once the GB ids are distributed (which will be when you'll HAVE to start behaving yourself) your scared you might forget yourself and get caught!!
Try practicing going legal now and hopefully by the time you become id'd you'll have the hang of it and all your worries (along with 5% of your wages) will melt away!!
Be Lucky!!
Leigh, since the most common reason I have heard for people to stop using taxis is that London taxi drivers are "up themselves", your smart Alec reply suggests that you have probably single-handedly driven away more passengers than all the poachers combined.
ReplyDeleteI am on 21s and will probably get my req within two months, and if it weren't for the knowledge delays caused by your buddy John Mason I would probably have a green badge already. I wanted to work as a yellow badge right up until my badge day, because I love my job, but I know that nothing would please Grant Davies and his kind more than to falsely accuse me of picking up in Central London every time they see me. My call-over partner, who would also have a green badge but for the delays, has run out of money and had to start working for Addison Lee, so your pal Mason has effectively forced a fully qualified green badge to work for Addison Lee by delaying appearances. Even if Mason knew that the accusations against me were false, he would choose to believe them and would choose to throw me off the green badge knowledge, and probably take my yellow badge off me and give me an application form for Addison Lee. There is no way I can risk that, and can live without working for a few months, although I love my job so much I don't want to. Mason is not anti yellow badge, he is anti taxi, and I am disappointed that so many green badges can't see that. When I started the green badge I thought my badge day would be one of the happiest days in my life, but thanks to Mason and Davies I will be the one guy in the room with no trace of a smile.
TfL again trying to reinforce the identifier issue to cause division in the cab trade. If Leigh is Lcdc I would be very surprised as the Lcdc couldn't put an August edition of the badge together at a time when there is a plethora of information for a real cab trade activist to fill his boots. This is almost definitely more TfL hysteria propaganda.
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't know whether to be flattered or insulted at your assumption that I am a green badge!!
ReplyDeleteI have held my yellow badge for over twelve years and have absolutely no intention of going green despite working almost exclusively in green badge territory.
If I draw complaints from the public it would be more likely because I haven't a clue where I'm going, and they'd be right!! Although I am legal so it wouldn't get very far anyway!!
Thank goodness for satalite navigation.
I wish you all the best on your last appearances and will probably pass you by soon when we both work in town Legally!!
For me it's too much bother getting the badge when you can exploit the loopholes and there's a few TFL either haven't found or don't want broadcast, but I do take my hat off to those of you that don't need a sat nab and a sense of humour to see you through!!
These ids are nothing but an expensive farce, then again that's about par for the course in it!?! It's the same reason I'm not worried about posting my name and email instead of hiding behind ANON
Leigh, nice comment. Unfortunately, it's a rather large shot fired by capital P. little cannon. lol
ReplyDeleteAnon 04:27
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what drugs your on but I'd try to wheen yourself off them before random urine tests are introduced!!
I am flabagasted at your paranoia and confusion!!
Why can't you work legally until you pick up your GB and why will you be the only one in the room not smiling?
If your claims were true and not delusions then no one in the room would be smiling, in fact it would be a miracle if anyone turned up!!
You have buried yourself so deeply in this militant BS that you're starting to let it govern your life!!
Do yourself a favour- work your yellow legally until you get your green and enjoy your life! You only get one, and distressing yourself like this will shorten it dramatically!!
Stop crying over lost days and be the proudest man with the biggest smile on the day you go All London!!
If you do get an Addison Lee application form could you forward it to me:
Disenchanted,
Point position
Worple Road Rank
SW19
Thank you.