ONE in four fines issued for littering and dog fouling in north Barnsley have gone unpaid, latest statistics show.
Officers are provided by the company Kingdom and work on behalf of the North Area Council, with a remit to issue fixed penalties for littering and dog fouling, as well as parking offences though those fines are collected through a different system.
Latest figures for councillors show that 76 per cent of fines have resulted in payment so far, though a report to councillors states that when cases are pursued to court there has been a 99 per cent success rate in securing a prosecution.
A report to councillors also states that officers were “spending more time concentrating on the dog fouling element of our work”, though statistics for the last three months of 2017 show only five people were caught for that offence, compared to 262 for littering.
Overall revenue from dog fouling and littering fines in those three months was a little more than £10,000.
