Find this a bit hard to believe. Suspect drivers may have been stopped by police *and* council enforcement officers, because I think they need police to be able to stop cabs.
There's a brief video on the BBC's website here, which loads nice and easy, so no need to worry about waiting a fortnight for adverts etc to load then your browser crashing:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotla ... -a-uniformThink the video is just a short extract from a longer piece that was on Scotland's new BBC news programme.
Police pull over taxi drivers for ‘crimes against fashion’https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scot ... -qz56hfb0bTaxi drivers have complained that a strict dress code that outlaws jeans is being enforced by the police.
North Lanarkshire council says that drivers must wear smart non-denim trousers, skirts or dresses as a condition of their licences.
Some claim that the rule is being enforced by police. One taxi driver, who asked not to be named, said that he was stopped at 2am by police for a dress code check. He told BBC Scotland: “They then told me I’d have to go home and get changed.”
The Nine news programme on BBC Scotland said that another driver who was found to be wearing jeans was advised to buy formal trousers and then report to a police station. One driver said: “We shouldn’t have to go and buy clothes that we otherwise wouldn’t wear . . . They’re the fashion police.”
North Lanarkshire council said that it did not believe any drivers had been found in breach of the dress code regulation, part of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982. A spokeswoman denied that the council had asked police to carry out checks but said: “We encourage all our licensed taxi drivers to maintain an acceptable smart-casual dress code.”
She added: “Failure to comply with the conditions of a licence could result in drivers facing prosecution.”
Police Scotland said that it had not received any complaints from the public relating to licensing condition enforcement in North Lanarkshire.
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