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mardi 3 janvier 2006

Big Brother: "Pay up or get locked up" SMS

Les anglais commencent à utiliser les SMS pour forcer les sujets de sa gracieuse majesté à payer leurs contraventions ou autres amendes.

Le message est clair: Payez ou allez en prison!

Ce qui est interessant, c'est que le but est de réduire la dette. Cela ne vous fait penser à rien ?


Pay up or get locked up text hits home: "Pay up or get locked up text hits home


Modern technology aims to to speed up court debt collection and may form part of the National Enforcement Service


Magistrates' courts across England and Wales could soon be 'texting' fine evaders to demand they pay up, after the initiative been successfully piloted in the Midlands.

Courts are also looking at sending automated reminders by text, email or phone to fine evaders, offenders who don't do their community service and those who fail to attend court. The planned new offensive would ensure offenders comply with orders of the court, and provide an additional enforcement tool when they ignore their legal obligation.

The hi-tech way of chasing persistent offenders was used recently in Staffordshire during the national fines blitz, Operation Payback 3. Staffordshire magistrates' court set up an automatic system for contacting offenders. It involved sending a 'pay up or get locked up' message to about 150 fine evaders' mobile phones. The element of surprise frightened about three quarters of the offenders into paying up immediately, and more than �2m in outstanding fines was collected, exceeding the previous national fines blitz total which was �1.7m. Because it was so successful, it may form part of the National Enforcement Service (NES) which will be tested in the North West next April and come into effect a year later in April 2007. "