GEORGE TOWN: A police report has been lodged against a taxi-driver after a squabble when City Council enforcement staff started clamping cars at the roadside at Gurney Drive on Friday night.

Northeast district police chief Mior Faridalatrash Wahid said the enforcement staff, aged 28, was with two other colleagues on duty there.

“There were too many cars at the roadside causing traffic congestion so he and his two colleagues proceeded to clamp the tyres of cars that were parked indiscriminately.

“He came to a taxi which was double parked and told the driver to move the vehicle but the latter refused,” Mior said today.

The council worker reported that he was about to clamp the tyre of the taxi when the driver started berating him, dragging him to the enforcement lorry parked on the opposite side.

The taxi driver, in his 50s, continued to berate at the enforcement staff and demanded his identity card and authority card.

Police on patrol eventually broke up the confrontation.

“The victim refused to surrender his identity card and authority card because the taxi driver had no authority to inspect them, only the police can do so,” he said.

The taxi driver had also lodged a police report.

A one-minute video showing a taxi driver dragging and roughing up a council enforcement staff is being spread on Facebook.

–BERNAMA