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App offers users £10 rewards for snitching on illegally parked cars

The controversial app offers a £10 cash reward for each reported car (CLIVE DIXON/REX/Shutterstock)
The controversial app offers a £10 cash reward for each reported car (CLIVE DIXON/REX/Shutterstock)

A private firm has created an app that promises to reward informants who snitch on people parking illegally.

Users can simply upload a picture of the offending vehicle, along with its registration number.

However, critics of the i-Ticket app have raised concerns that it could cause ‘chaos’.

The app makes it easy to send a snap of the offending car along with its number plate (CPM/iTunes App Store)
The app makes it easy to send a snap of the offending car along with its number plate (CPM/iTunes App Store)

Created by UK Car Park Management’s (UK CPM), the app is designed by use commercial or residential land owners that don’t have the funds to patrol their car parking areas.

New users can create an account on the app after which CPM will send them car parking signs to put up.

Any car that parks there can be snapped and reported – with the user receiving £10 for each illegally parked car nabbed.

Using DVLA data, CPM then sends a £60 fine notice to the vehicle owner. The fee rises to £100 if it’s not paid within two weeks.

The app is available on both iOS and Android with the app maker promising “complete privacy” to user who report drivers.

“Our parking tickets and signs have no reference to yourself, all correspondence are designed to make the motorist believe they have been caught by a CPM Patrol Warden, “ says CPM on its website.

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Critics have slammed the app as being a ‘recipe for disaster’.

“This is wrong on so many levels it beggars belief,” RAC spokesman Simon Williams told Mirror Online.

“The sharp practices of parking companies are already regularly called into question with paid officials dishing out fines, but with members of the public being financially encouraged to shop motorists who overstay, it’s a recipe for disaster.

“This will cause total chaos by undermining trust still further and may even lead to public order offences between drivers and members of the public looking to earn a quick £10.”