Blue card traffic offence label with punched hole for attaching to a vehicle with string, marked "Brighton Borough Police" followed by instructions to the driver of the vehicle it is to be attached to and blank spaces for offence details to be completed.
Use
For an officer to put on an unattended vehicle, which was in contravention of a minor road traffic offence.
Context
These "blue labels" as they were known, were left on unattended vehicles by police officers, when a vehicle was in contravention of a minor motoring offence.
This would include parking violations in the days before officers had parking tickets, no road tax or the vehicle being in some form of un- roadworthy condition.
The officer would complete the details on the label and the driver was required to attend a police station where their details would be taken and they would be reported for an offence and in due course be summonsed to appear at court.
This particular label has the address of John Street Police Station which opened in 1965 and is for Brighton Borough Police which was amalgamated into the new Sussex Constabulary in 1968. It therefore dates to between 1965 and 1967.
The "blue label" system was still in use in Sussex Police in the 1990s.
