Oh give me strength...
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Ensuring that foreign drivers cannot escape punishment in Great Britain through new powers to issue fixed penalty notices for endorsable offences and to take deposits from offenders who cannot provide a verifiable address.
How ? Are we back to Blair's idea of marching people to cashpoints again? Or arresting and holding them until the deposit can be paid - taking yet more time off the streets....
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Improving compliance through increased penalties for various safety-related road traffic offences such as driving while using a hand-held mobile phone, careless and inconsiderate driving and using a vehicle in a dangerous condition.
Trafpol reducing in numbers - so who's going to perform the "stops" needed to find these offences? They've already given Vehicle Standards the power to stop cars (but no blue lights to do it with)...more privatising police roles...
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Dealing with poor driving standards by allowing the courts to make increased use of retraining courses for serious offenders
That's if you can get the CPS to get the case to court in the first place...
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and through improvements to driving instruction and testing procedures.
Testing procedures? Does this mean a motorway test at long last...no, didn't think so...
Its a typical piece of New Labour spin - just creating a new offence doesn't help, we already have ones for inconsiderate driving - we just can't use them though as the CPS hate them...
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Clarifying which vehicles can break signed speed limits in emergency situations
Silly me, I thought a big blue light on the vehicle concerned sort of identified that....
More spin, anyone ?
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