Medway's controversial CCTV car is bringing the council into disrepute, according to the leader of the Labour group.

Cllr Paul Godwin (pictured below) accused the enforcement car operators of double standards and said they do not appear to be operating within the law.

He spoke out after revelations the council sacked one of the drivers after it was spotted parked on double yellow lines directly in front of a zebra crossing outside Byron Primary School, in Gillingham.

Earlier this month, the Messenger revealed the CCTV car was snapped at the same spot trying to catch motorists parked illegally.

A council spokesman said the authority felt the vehicle could have stopped further from the pedestrian crossing and staff members had been instructed to do so in the future.

However, on Monday it emerged a CCTV car driver had again been spotted in the same place and was berated by one mother.

The driver was sacked because he ignored the warning just a few days earlier.

Cllr Godwin said: "We've been critical of the CCTV car for the past two years, as it's not doing what it should be doing.

"There seems to be double standards and sometimes it does not seem to be operating within the law. It does bring the council into disrepute."

A Medway Council spokesman said: "This driver has not parked in a manner that we consider safe and has been dismissed from his post with immediate effect for this reason. The council targets bad and unsafe parking to help cut congestion."