Civil Enforcement Officers

What is a Civil Enforcement Officer (CEO)?

A Parking Attendant will now be called a Civil Enforcement Officer (CEO), and will be required to fulfil a wider remit than previously under the Road Traffic Act (RTA)

Will the work that a Civil Enforcement Officer carries out change?

A CEO's main objective remains to ensure that parking controls are observed and enforced in a fair, accurate and consistent manner. However, a CEO's duties will also include related activities such as:

• inspecting parking equipment;
  
• checking and reporting defective parking signs and road markings; and
  
• issuing information leaflets and warning notices where appropriate.

The CEO may also be asked to undertake other tasks, including:

• informing the Police of criminal parking activity;
  
• reporting suspected abandoned vehicles;
  
• reporting vehicles with no valid tax disc to the DVLA; and
  
• checking that non-mobile objects in parking places (e.g. skips) are in compliance with their licence.