Road Policing North Wales

The PPP believe that the whole population are 'Motorists' in the sense that they are either pilots or passengers in vehicles of one sort or another whether it be Bikes, Cars, PSVs, HGVs, ESVs. and all the numerous vans that provide goods and services to every corner of these Isles, AND we really need each other!

UK population of over 60 million

Of the TOTAL UK population of over 60 million over 39 million have driving licences and those that don’t are dependent on those that DO. MOTORISTS are NOT a MINORITY GROUP.

Currently over 250,000 of these licences are suspended mainly due to speed camera abuses.

The owners/users of the nation’s more than 30 million registered vehicles contribute over £40 billion in taxes each year but less than £6 billion is spent on the roads.

Sympathetic

We the public and the Police in particular, because of their unique power and attendant responsibility must be sympathetic and supportive to all classes of 'motorist' going about their business in a reasonably responsible manner. None of us are perfect and some of us can make or break the free society that we all enjoy.

Road policing in North Wales is synonymous with only Richard Brunstrom, Speed Cameras and unmarked vehicles.

Arrive Alive

This information for Arrive Alive including a fully audited financial analysis must be made available to the North Wales public, who can judge the value for money and what they would prefer! Included in this release must be details of the oft quoted but mysterious survey carried by a company Egni Research via a firm of accountants in Pwellhi and with technical assistance from Bangor University

Road policing North Wales - Urban Roads

We feel that road policing of Urban Roads in North Wales is a community policing activity and a new approach is required from this direction. Again the initiatives need to come from the bottom up and some of the technology paid for by the public & misused by the SCAMERA partnerships will be a valuable aid to providing data & planning any policies.

In conclusion all members of the PPP in North Wales & their Associates are totally committed and supportive of traditional manned vehicle & community style road policing and Crime prevention.

The PPP have prepared a series of Bulletins on road policing issues from young driver training to road surface technology. We have researched many of the issues internationally and have contacts in most of the developed countries.

Speed Camera Policy

Every open survey carried out by various organisations and the press and most of the press coverage indicates that the Speed Camera policy Nationally and particularly in North Wales is alienating the public from the Police.

It is also criminalising generally law abiding citizens. Many of the abuses are symptomatic of a Police state!! But the system allows non-police and un elected individuals to perpetrate these abuses

Most longstanding road research and historical and recent statistics show that it has failed to achieve it’s stated objectives. It has in fact seriously damaged the road safety culture in this country.

In so doing this policy has increased the frequency of fatal accidents and negated the gains from continuous improvements to roads and vehicle technology. The principle of hidden Police officers crouched down inside vehicles targeting only safe sections of our roads is ANATHEMA to the principles of open & honest co-operative community Policing.

The fact that long serving officers find this an acceptable activity emphasises the corrupting influence of financial incentives (now being considered in other areas of policing!) and the pernicious propaganda from those in charge.

The basic false premise of a self-financing Camera based high tech. System of road policing has generated a system of unaccountable quangos which abuse all aspects of the original rules and guidelines and the legal system and court procedures.

It is clear to all that, Richard Brunstrom as the architect of this failed system, is accountable for all it’s failings and abuses including several thousand additional deaths and many more serious injuries on our roads. We are in danger of making the same mistake with the overuse and wildly optimistic expectations of CCTV in our towns and cities Is the objective really to obtain video records of crimes, including murder rather than PREVENTION!. WE must learn the lesson from the failed SCAMERAs that are based on this scandalous principle!

Social and real financial costs

The Social and real financial costs to the population, families, businesses and the horrendous divisions created at all levels in society may never be known.

The system is so out of control that the SCAMERAs themselves do not appear to know (or care) where their cameras are, how many prosecutions there have been or who has been prosecuted. The investigation by the Times into the scandal in Essex only scratched the surface.

The abuse of the language such as ‘Safety’ Cameras & ‘partnerships’, ‘initiatives’, and the latest favourite of Brunstrom’s “reassurance” etc is also highly destructive of public confidence in the long term.

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Road Policing North Wales