London's Safety in Jeopardy, as PH signage Bought For A Couple Of Pounds...by Thomas the Taxi

PCO enforcement, Safer Travel Command, LTPH compliance teams and the Metropolitan police have put the safety of the public at risk to terrorist’s intent on causing chaos in front of the world media this summer.

The Anderson Shelter has (since the attack on Tiger Tiger and Cockspur Street by two deranged car bombers) been warning that because the law on illegal plying for hire wasn’t being enforced the atrocity of an outbreak of indiscriminate car bombings could devastate the capital.

We have seen road stops for London’s licensed taxis, compliance officers regularly carry out badge and bill checks at Taxi ranks and yet lines of illegally parked cars, purporting to by licensed private hire, are left to their own devices to form illegal ranks all over London and are unabated by LTPH, Local traffic wardens and the Metropolitan and City of London police.

The budget from our license fees that should have been spent on enforcement has been seconded to a fund to supply LTPH with a state of the art IT system. While the funds have been spirited away, Londoners safety has been put at risk. Since July 2007 we have seen two car bomb attempts thousands of thefts of personal belongings of passengers and nearly a thousand serious sexual assaults including hundreds of rapes, because of the lack of security and enforcement appertaining to the illegal plying for hire and touting of licensed private hire drivers. TfL/LTPH’s record on this subject is disgraceful.

Now we have a new threat, which could put the security of the Olympic Games in jeopardy.

Bought for Just £4.00...

Two sets of  PH  Pre-booked only stickers for £4.00.

I have just managed to purchase two sets of TfL, “Pre-booked only” blue stickers from an online store for the princely sum of £4.00 in total.

If I were a terrorist, I could now leave two car bombs unattended outside any of London’s night venues and the Police, local council and TfL/LTPH/STC would of couse, be turning a blind eye, FACT.

I did contact LTPH last week and asked if on-line stores could sell these stickers openly on-line but as usual I have had no reply on this subject.

Abacus...it don't add up!
I have personally witnessed; Police officers from the City of London police, LTPH compliance teams and local traffic wardens remove licensed Taxis from outside Abacus on Cornhill, while leaving a line of twenty private hire cars, unabated and completely unchecked illegally parked, illegally plying for hire and illegally touting.

When two of my colleagues asked the Police Officer to move the cars, they were told that they had been given permission by TfL to park on the double yellow lines. The same reply was given by the traffic wardens. LTPH compliance team falsely stated that they had no control over the line of parked cars and only had a brief to check licensed Taxi badge and bills.

John Mason Director Of LTPH
The director of LTPH has no concept of Hackney carriage or case law and takes opinion from a legal department that uses a book written by a Derbyshire solicitor, rather than true prima legislation and case record. He has a definite bias towards private hire and has been seen on many occasions to bend over backwards to facilitate PH (just look at the farce with the Grosvenor House Hotel rank and the shambles with the court case of Abacus).

Under his personal directorship, private hire driver license numbers have trebled in just 2 ½ years (approx 105,000 PH licenses at present), satellite office licenses have escalated out of all control.
Mason also refuses to accept illegal plying for hire as a contravention of the terms of a PHV drivers license. 

With the recent combination of compliance and licensing departments into just LTPH licensing, there is now no effectual enforcement connected to LTPH.

I personally charge John Mason with "Malfeasance" (that's wrongful conduct by a public official) and I call for Boris Johnson/Peter Hendy to remove him from his position immediately. 

The old PCO had the ability to deal with this problem but since TfL have taken over PCO enforcement have been virtually abandoned.

It is disgusting that the public’s safety has been put in jeopardy by these civil servants who are carrying out the STaN agenda to the letter and are turning a blind eye to heinous crimes taking place just to benefit from PH license fees.

It is very worrying that lines of illegally plying PHVs are left alone, touting beside (and sometimes on) licensed taxi ranks. 
When licensing officers turn up and check badge and bills, Taxi drivers are left in disbelief as the so called “Licensing Officers” drive off leaving the touts unabated and unchecked. 

Editorial Comment: 


PETER HENDY, BORIS JOHNSON, JOHN MASON:
Its happened before,  It could happen again!


Have you ever lost a love one?


How would you cope being asked to identify a close relative by a body part.


How would you like to pick your daughter up from a police station after she has been raped, what would you tell her? 
Would you tell her you could have made it different, you could have prevented it from happening...?


How do you sleep at night?