People are being offered £10 every time they snitch on illegal parking

BRITS are being offered £10 as payment for every time they snitch on illegally parked cars.

A new app from UK Car Park Management (CPM) is offering the money in return for dobbing in drivers who park on private land.

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CPM, which operates car parks for major brands like McDonald’s and Tesco, will even send homeowners “DIY signage” to enforce the rules.

Their i-Ticket app is available for free on the Google Play store and the Apple App Store and will pay a £10 commission on successfully enforced fines.

All you have to do is sign up for the app and use the DIY sign kit they send you to notify drivers of the restricted area.

Then you just take a photo of any vehicle that parks there, making sure the registration plate is in view.

CPM will then use DVLA records to track the owner of the vehicle and issue a penalty of £60, rising to £100 if not paid within two weeks.

The company guarantees “complete privacy” to any user who reports a motorist, saying: “Our parking tickets and signs have no reference to yourself, all correspondence are designed to make the motorist believe they have been caught by a CPM patrol warden.”

Until now, CPM relied on privately employed wardens but the app could see their enforcement base grow substantially.

The description on app stores reads: “This free app allows you to protect your land and parking spaces.

“Using the app you can issue parking tickets to all those vehicles which park on your land (parking spaces) without your permission.”

CPM boss James Randall claims that the programme will empower people to regulate off-road parking that is not currently policed.

He told The Mirror: “The problem is not with the app but with drivers that do not respect people’s land.

“The photo uploaded to the app is just the evidence and every one is looked at by a member of staff before a ticket is printed.”

However, The RAC’s Simon Williams branded the plan a “recipe for disaster” and said it would cause “total chaos”.

He claimed: “[It] may even lead to public order offences between drivers and members of the public looking to earn a quick £10.”