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 National Enforcement Services, one of the UK’s leading bailiff and private investigation services, is witnessing a rise in the number of people avoiding paying parking fines.

The firm has noticed an increase in the use of its Enforcement and Investigation services to track down owners of vehicles and their whereabouts as council’s aim to recoup the unpaid debts.

National Enforcement Services is also reporting that there is a growing number of people whose status in society gives them the view they are above the law and can avoid paying fines. The agency has been involved in recovering unpaid parking fines from numerous celebrities – although confidentiality clauses protect them from being ‘named and shamed’.

Andy Coates, CEO of National Enforcement Services, said: “There are those who feel they are above the law because of their position within society. We have found some of those can be significant culprits in not paying their parking fines, with celebrities and well-known figures cropping up in our enforcement assignments more often than would be expected as a proportion of the population.

National Enforcement’s Enforcement and Investigation service has seen a 65% rise in the number of gone aways in the last quarter. National Enforcement Officers are now chasing everything from overdue parking tickets to missing family members.

Andy added, “Local authorities are calling on tracing and debt collection services more and more to locate the individuals who have failed to pay their fines. Unpaid debt amounts to millions for local authorities each year. For example, one council was recently owed £30 million in unpaid fines.”