Villagers train as traffic cops
Posted by Ellee on Jul 3, 2007 in Uncategorized | 7 commentsVillagers in Norfolk are being trained as traffic cops to advise police on “real, and 
not perceived” speeding areas.
Of course road safety is important, but I’m pretty sure that parish councils already know their hot spot problem areas.
Eight villagers in Hopton have been trained to use speed guns for the trial scheme and will report the offenders to police. Police are encouraging councils to support the scheme so it can be extended throughout the county.
This is nothing more than policing on the cheap. Let’s see more police officers on the beat in rural areas who get out and about in the community and talk to villagers. That’s the way our policing should be done.
There were 31,845 people killed or seriously injured on our roads in 2006. Nearly THIRTY TWO THOUSAND. That puts terrorism into perspective, I think.
If the role of the police is to protect person and property, there seems to be no more cost-effective way of deploying them than road safety.
Yes, Happy Birthday, Ellee.
Policing should be done by the police.
The previous was me, Ellee.
Happy Birthday from me too, Ellee. Looking good – just the right age, whatever that may be
A couple of issues really – private citizens have always had the right and the duty to report offences and make arrests for arrestable offences, so this is more a use of new technology rather than an increase in the powers of members of the public.
Both my wife and I have recieved speeding fines despite the fact that we both try our best to be careful. A friend of mine – similarly aged and minded – attended a retraining course attended by 17 people caught by the same speed camera; this is clearly a issue of bad road layout but one suspects the local authorities don’t want to lose a money spinner such as this particular camera.
And is speeding the greatest cause of fatal accidents ? I think not, you’ll find that’s down to overtaking and head-on collisions brought about by … slow drivers blocking the roads.
Hi James, nice to hear from you again too, it has been a while. Let us just say I am ageless. Thanks for the birthday wishes.
Happy Birthday, Ellee. Haven’t seen you in weeks. I felt it was soon. What was it – 29 or 32 years old?
I saw this before. It’s quite sickening.
We are becoming a nation of police spies.