Cancel or Not Renew Kingdom Security Contracts

Local authorities in North Wales have contracted third party private company Kingdom Security to issue fixed penalty notices (FPNs) for environmental crimes such as littering, dog mess and a range of other matters. As Kingdom Security (KS) is funded entirely from the FPNs it issues, it has a financial incentive to break all rules in order to maximise profit. The company has been exposed in the media for incentivising its employees to issue as many FPNs as possible.

This has seen minors, the elderly, the disabled and the most vulnerable people in society deliberately targeted with FPNs valued at £75 for trivial littering by cigarette butts (the bulk of FPNs issued). The KS employees frequently employ intimidatory tactics on those least likely to challenge their accusations. They concentrate on high footfall locations to maximise profit while ignoring the type of anti-social crimes most people are opposed to. They persist in ignoring the law and guidelines, issuing FPNs for accidental littering for example rather than drawing the attention to it and rectifyng the issue.

They routinely lie and withhold pertinent information to convince often innocent people that they've committed an offence. Virtually all court cases have seen charges dismissed.

Kingdom Security is a menace. The aggressive behaviour of the company's employees is so bad in North Wales now, everyone knows someone negatively affected by them.

They do not reduce littering or dog mess and even if a FPN is issued, the litter or mess remains as neither the litterer not the KS employee is compelled to clean it up.

I myself have never received a FPN, but when I dared mention the actions of KS in my town and file a Freedom of Information request to Denbighshire County Council, I had the council employed over-seer of KS make repeated visits to try and track me down. In the end, he approached me in a public street in an attempt to get me to retract everything. This was an unsolicited approach by a man who had previously been told to stay away from me and who was prepared to break the law to try and silence me.

This is just one story of hundreds that can be told in North Wales about KS and the local authorities contracting it.

This petition is aimed at telling the five councils involved that enough is enough. KS is destroying the very fabric of North Wales society. The company must go.