Last week, an NCP van parked on double yellow lines and within a cycle lane outside Worthing's Mulberry pub.

A reader spotted it parked for more than five minutes and took a picture of it. Hats off to him!

The next involved two police officers. They were watched by members of the public parking on double yellow lines outside Macaris on a Saturday afternoon, and, according to a onlookers, caused "slight problems" for bus drivers.

The officers, a PC and WPC, got out of their patrol car and queued up for an ice cream.

Surprise, surprise, an NCP parking enforcement officer arrived on the scene. Did he issue a ticket? Never on your life. He, apparently, went off on his mission to harrass the general public.

These are two blatent examples of people in authority being totally arrogant and thoughtless – doing what angers the public more than anything.

They're the "do as I say, don't do as I do brigade".

I hope NCP will carry out a full investigation. I know police are taking the incident with their officers seriously and are investigating.

I would like to see police officers or any other jumped-up official who breaks the laws he/she is supposed to uphold, instantly dismissed from their job.

It really is not good enough for these people to act so blatently in front of the public.

In the next breath they want the public to respect them. How can this happen when they see them break the law?

Perhaps the public should be issued with parking tickets to slap on police and NCP vehicles when they are seen parking on double lines other than in an emergency!
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On the subject of Worthing's parking fiasco, which is so damaging to the town's economy, it is not NCP but councillors who, firstly, lorded over a proliferation of yellow lines and restrictions, many of which don't need to be there, and then voted to hand over control of parking both on and off-street to a private company.

Everyone fed up with the Nazi-style control of car parking in Worthing should bombard councillors' telephones morning, noon and night, demanding they get rid of NCP.

I can recall when the town hall ran its own car parking operation and charges were so much cheaper.

I can also recall when Worthing ran its own water undertaking... efficiently and at a cost so much cheaper than Southern Water.

I'm no Socialist (as regular readers of my column can vouch), but there are areas of society where services are better run by councils than companies.
Bear in mind that company directors of private companies are likely to care less for the people at the receiving end of their "services" than their shareholders.

It all goes sadly wrong when councillors don't do their jobs properly and ensure there is sufficient money set aside for upkeep, maintenance and replacement.

That's why our old and run-down multi-storey car parks were handed over to NCP and why the town is in such a mess with its ancient Aquarena.