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Having a go at safety cameras is an easy joke and a cheap shot. The sort of bar room conversational opening that is populist and ill considered. Technology has been applied to detecting a relatively simple offence in order that police officers can use their human attributes to detect more difficult offences. I look forward to the day when I can mechanise or automate the process of detecting some of the other poor driving habits that lead to accidents such as close following (tail gating), or failing to wear seat belts, or complying with mobile phone legislation. Until that time I'll happily support the safety cameras as they detect speeding and red light offences.
I think it's about time that those who break the law stop whinging, pay their fines and get a sense of proportion.
easy shot, cheap joke. MED, IT IS NOT WORKING! PEOPLE ARE DYING
Med thinks that mobile phones, speed and seatbelts are the only cures to road deaths. and nice little bits of gizmos can catch them all. WAKE UP!
A three year old died because it was on the housing estate spine road without an adult. People are stagering across our streets three times the dtrink drive limit. easten block drivers are strangly responsible for 15% of road deaths. but he hasn't got a gizmo to fix that.
I have posted twice on that debate. there is so much ammunition in his statements there we should capture it for the future.
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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV
Snap Unhappy“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code