Disabled’s parking space gripe

I WONDER why shopping centres waste money on security staff who do not perform their assignment.

Surely there can be nothing more frustrating than continuously telling an organisation that the staff they are paying are all but totally useless!

Our local shopping centre, The Glen, employs a security company to control the car parks.

As a disabled driver I have to continally remind their staff that disabled parking is for disabled drivers, not for the young and fit and definitely not for people who are in no way disabled.

Despite having been given the security supervisor’s telephone number, I have yet to receive a reply from this person.

Yesterday I went to the office to ask if they did in fact have wheel-clamps as there was a young man sitting and eating lunch in a disabled bay at entrance 5.

After waiting outside of the security office for more than 10 minutes, I realised that no wheel-clamp would be leaving the office in any hurry!

The security staff ride around on Segway scooters, and I suspect the wheel-clamps are too heavy for them to carry.

To attract the attention of anybody in The Glen management is even more of a problem.

Would it not be more enterprising to have the wheelclamps displayed near the reserved bays and stop the problem before it starts? Oakdene