The man in charge of finance on The Hague city council has called on the city’s traffic wardens to write more parking tickets, in direct contravention of national government policy, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday.

Sander Dekker, a member of the Liberal party VVD, wants traffic wardens to increase their ticketing to 250 a year, from 150 at present, in 2013.
The national government and Dekker’s own party want ticket quotas scrapped.
‘Don’t start me on that,’ Dekker told the paper. ‘If you are walking the streets six to eight hours a day, 250 days a year, you should be writing at least one ticket a day.’