malcolmw wrote:
If traffic police are being reduced then you might expect a reduction in accidents on the simple proportion model.
I don't think they're talking about just trafplod here. As has already been suggested I think it's more likely to mean the vanilla variety police crashing pandas etc as well as any crashes the trafplod have. Apparently they don't spend
all their time at the nick waving pencils about
(sorry BiBs, you know I'm only winding you up). And if the government are to be believed we've got more plod about than ever before - can't say I've noticed myself, but that's what they say. Assuming that's true then it's possible that police crashes haven't changed in real terms, but it obviously depends a lot on what exactly they're doing. What we really need to know is the police crash rate per mile. If we could get twenty or thirty years worth of that we might get a better idea if there really is a "Hendon factor" at work.
malcomw wrote:
Might it be something to do with the cameras bringing law enforcement into disrepute and thus the public are becoming less willing to give way to police cars leading to more accidents?
It'd be very sad if that's the case. That's made me think of something else though. Do talivans count as a police vehicle and how often do their drivers stack it?
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