City seeks volunteers to police parking scofflaws
| July 6, 2009 | 5:14 PM
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Are you getting fed up with seeing able-bodied people slide into handicapped parking spots and get away with it?
Well, Denver’s Office of Disability Rights is looking for volunteers to help do something about it.
Recruits will have to undergo six hours of classroom training before the police will give them a special ID letting them write tickets for offenders. They’ll also have to pass a background check and oral test.
Volunteers will work in pairs and must devote at least six hours a month to this duty, enforcing handicapped-parking laws on both public and private lots.
Officials with the Office of Disability Rights were not available Monday to discuss the reason for this renewed emphasis on the parking enforcement program, which began in 1993.
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