POLICE and court officers have launched a crackdown on criminals across Hampshire who owe a total of nearly £9.4m in unpaid fines.
Fine dodgers have been woken at dawn and offered the chance to settle their debts by credit or debit card or be taken straight to face magistrates.
They could even end up in prison depending on the offence for which they were fined.
But those behind the purge, dubbed Operation Payback 2, have admitted that the system was flawed because some debtors simply could not be tracked down.
A similar operation in May recovered just £22,000 and saw 11 offenders jailed.
Full story on pages two and three of tonight's Daily Echo
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