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A Christmas crackdown on cabbies and private hires saw one driver arrested for drug driving and others cars suspended and seized across Merseyside.
Merseyside Police’s roads policing unit tweeted last night saying they carried out a taxi and private hire operation with Liverpool City Council’s licensing team.
The post said eight vehicles were suspended from operating due to “defects”, and another vehicle was seized for not having insurance.
Shockingly, one driver was arrested for drug driving on Mad Friday in Liverpool.
It is unclear whether the driver arrested for drug driving was a Hackney cab driver or a private hire driver. but the headline said cabbie
The roads policing unit later updated their twitter feed to say a total of ten private hire vehicles and Hackneys were suspended with 30 defects.
LCC Licensing are the council service responsible for taxis, alcohol and other licencing activities in Liverpool, as well as “public protection”.
With the festive season will underway and the city centre busy with Christmas celebrations, private hires and black cabs have come under fire for allegedly cherry picking customers and charging some people double their usual fares.
Last week, passengers claimed drivers were refusing certain destinations and some were charged extortionate fares to get home.
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