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Target real criminals not drivers, judge tells police
By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:37 PM on 8th April 2010
Judge Richard O'Rorke has accused police of wasting their time on minor traffic offences

A judge has criticised a police force for concentrating on harassing motorists rather than dealing with serious crime.
Judge Richard O'Rorke hit out after being told a hearing to confiscate the assets of a convicted fraudster would have to be postponed.
He was told Lincolnshire police did not have the manpower to value a catalogue of items worth hundreds of thousands of pounds seized from Tina Crowson.
Judge O'Rorke, sitting at Lincoln Crown Court, was told no one was available to carry out the three-week task - even though the items were thought to be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
He said: 'If they spent more time dealing with matters like this rather than pulling over people for traffic offences the work might be done.'
'It is a fact of life. Motorists are being pulled up for very minor offences.
'Things like this are then left waiting on the back burner for lack of the allocation of resources.
He added: 'They have the resources to do it - It is a question of allocating them.'
The judge adjourned the hearing for six weeks to give police more time to assess the value of items they seized from Crowson, including a BMW and designer handbags.

Prosecutor Simon Rowe said the items - which include a BMW convertible, computers, designer handbags and other luxuries - could be sold for more than £200,000 to compensate Crowson's victims.
The 44-year-old stole £128,000 in just 18 months from her then employers the Lincolnshire-based meat wholesalers Peterborough Game Company.
She obtained her job as a accounts clerk by submitting a bogus CV in which she exaggerated her qualifications.
She also failed to mention that she had just emerged from prison after serving a sentence for defrauding her previous employer out of £74,000.
Crowson, formerly of Werrington, Peterborough, was jailed for 30 months earlier this year after admitting theft and obtaining a job by deception.
The court heard she was a shopaholic who funded an extravagant lifestyle by stealing from her bosses.
Crowson, who claimed to be a devout Christian, spent £100 a week on facials and £150 a week on having her hair done as well as having a personal trainer, a masseur and a personal therapist.
Her lawyer told the court that she turned to retail therapy to give herself a boost following the break down of her marriage and she became a compulsive spender.
ssess the value of items they seized from Crowson at the time of her arrest.