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Traffic policing – time for Cinderella to go to the ball

The police should not be afraid to enforce laws regarding crimes committed on our roads

Phil Goodwin
23 September 2011
One of the Alker Tripps pictures
One of the Alker Tripps pictures
Portrait of Sir Alker Tripp, former Assistant Commissioner of Police
Portrait of Sir Alker Tripp, former Assistant Commissioner of Police

 

One of the first announcements by the new chief commissioner at Scotland Yard, Bernard Hogan-Howe, was an initiative to seize cars with no insurance and put them on public display so that the offenders would have to come and collect their cars (and pay the insurance) if they wanted to continue using them. The tactic has apparently been used in Liverpool successfully, and it is perhaps a mark of a shift to raise traffic policing higher than its (rather low) position in the hierarchy of esteem...

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Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin is professor of transport policy at the Centre for Transport and Society, University of West of England, Bristol, and emeritus professor at University College London. Email: philinelh@yahoo.com

 



 

 
 
 

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