DON’T fall foul of false footie fares. That’s the big message from Liverpool City Council’s licensing chiefs at the start of the new football season.
Officials in Liverpool targeted more than 2,000 drivers in 2017 in a drive to enforce taxi licensing laws.
Taxi licensing officials in Liverpool have issued scores of cautions and defect notices to private hire and hackney drivers over the last month in a bid to improve standards and enforce the law.
All taxi drivers in Liverpool are to undergo training to help them identify when children are being sexually exploited.
The city council and Merseyside Police have carried out an operation to crackdown on private hire drivers plying for hire.
A crackdown will take place on ticket touts, illegal street trading and taxi offences during the Grand National meeting.