Street wardens working for local councils are taught to single out vulnerable members of the public and intimidate them into paying £175 fines for offences as trivial as dropping a cigarette butt, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Enforcement officers are trained to use racial profiling and told to loiter outside hospitals where patients rushing to appointments are vulnerable prey.
An undercover reporter offered a job in Bristol with 3GS – one of Britain’s biggest council enforcement companies – was warned that he had to fine at least five people per shift or risk losing his job.
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