Across the country police and partnership web sites systematically and cynically misrepresent the law and drivers’ rights and responsibilities, invariably in ways that put pressure on them to give up and pay up, whether guilty or not.

The words and phrases used are so similar in all these sites that there seems little doubt that this is policy dicatated from above, and it amounts to attempting to pervert the course of justice and also entrapment into committing the criminal offence of providing false information.

A list will be provided of the most common misleading and factually inaccurate statements – for now readers should no more believe advice from police or partnerships than they should believe a Surveyor’s Report paid for by the seller of a house – in both cases there is clear cash incentive to mislead.