Dumfries and Galloway Council is set to take over responsibility for enforcing parking regulations from Police Scotland.

Councillor Paula Stevenson made the claim while councillors discussed a draft version of the new regional parking strategy.

Since then, the majority of Scottish councils have introduced decriminalised parking enforcement (DPE) which allows wardens to issue penalties to those who breach parking regulations. A ...

Most councils applied to introduce their own schemes known as Decriminalised Parking Enforcement (DPE). This allows wardens to issue parking tickets to anyone who is caught breaking the rules.

when parking is decriminalised and councils take over parking enforcement from the police. Blackburn with Darwen Council, as a unitary authority, takes control of its on-street parking a month later.

Councils who go down the decriminalised parking route retain the proceeds from penalty charges, which are used to finance enforcement and adjudication systems and for certain other traffic ...

He hopes to show that the Government and all local councils operating decriminalised parking enforcement regimes are acting unlawfully. If he succeeds, they would miss out on nearly £1m a year in ...

The authority has been operating decriminalised parking enforcement (DPE) since 1998 which has always been outsourced. The aim of the contract is to "ensure compliance with the parking regulations." ...

But it can be revealed that a third of Scotland’s 32 local authorities councils do not have the Decriminalised Parking Enforcement powers deemed necessary to enforce the ban. To help them ...