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Achieving Compliance with Road Traffic Law The Police Perspective Deputy Chief Constable Suzette Davenport ACPO Roads Policing What is this conference about? Achieving compliance with road traffic law Where do we think we are? Key

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Achieving Compliance with Road Traffic Law – The Police Perspective

Deputy Chief Constable Suzette Davenport ACPO Roads Policing

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What is this conference about?

  • Achieving compliance with road traffic law
  • Where do we think we are?
  • Key issues for us?
  • Where do we need to get to?
  • How might we get there?

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Where do we think we are?

  • Highly skilled and motivated

roads policing officers

  • Strong relationships with

partner organisations

  • Disparate working methods

across the country

  • Different structures for roads

policing delivery

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What has been achieved?

  • Significant reduction in UK road

casualties

  • 2009 – 2,222 deaths
  • 2010 – 1,850 deaths
  • Reduction of over 16%
  • Reduction in drink drive

casualties

  • Development of educational alternatives
  • Preservation of road safety partnerships

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Key issues facing us

Road Safety

  • Young drivers
  • Elderly road users
  • Motorcyclists
  • Drink & drug driving
  • Speed
  • Distraction
  • Seat belts
  • Foreign goods vehicles

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Key issues facing us

Crime

  • Metal theft
  • Plant theft
  • Drugs
  • Misuse of VRMs
  • Freight crime
  • Illegal immigration

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Key issues facing us

Terrorism

  • VBIEDs
  • Pre-cursor movements
  • Training camps

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Key issues facing us

Confidence and reassurance

  • Anti-social use of vehicles
  • Community safety – speeding
  • Visibility/on-road presence

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Where do we need to get to? Our strategic goals are:

  • Safer roads
  • Habitual compliance
  • Public confidence and satisfaction

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How we get there…

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Policing the Roads Strategy - Our Vision

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Enhancing the safety and security of all road users

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Policing the Roads Strategy - Our Approach

Focused harm reduction that saves lives and prevents crime

  • Enforcement based on professional judgement and discretion
  • A visible roads policing presence on the Strategic Roads Network
  • Intelligence led resources
  • Enforcement, education and engineering to affect and influence driver

behaviour

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Policing the Roads Strategy - Our Priorities

  • Reducing road casualties
  • Disrupting criminality
  • Countering terrorism
  • Patrolling the roads
  • Combating anti-social road use

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Policing the Roads Strategy – Our Approach

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Carrot or stick?

  • Discretion is key to success
  • Use of intelligence to target

high-risk drivers

  • Government promise of more

severe sentencing

  • Use education to change attitude

as well as behaviour

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Enforcement – fixed penalty notices

Source: Home Office Police Powers and Procedures England & Wales 2010/11

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Non-endorsable FPNs Endorsable FPNs

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Enforcement – fixed penalty notices

Numbers (thousands) England and Wales 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Careless (excl. Phones) 16.7 12.6 8.9 7.0 2.9 3.4 3.4 Use of handheld mobile 74 127 167 122 119 126 125 Licence/insurance/records 70 80 89 101 101 86 76 Vehicle test and condition 13 17 22 36 57 69 77 Speed limit offences 1,924 1,979 1,828 1,464 1,228 1,077 986 Seat belt offences 202 235 226 220 227 203 176 Source: Home Office Police Powers and Procedures England & Wales 2010/11

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Education courses

  • Speed awareness
  • Driver alertness
  • Ride
  • What’s driving us
  • Driving 4 change
  • Seatbelt online

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Key principles of courses

  • Offered to appropriate offenders
  • Correct course offered
  • Course designed to address offending behaviour/attitude
  • Course evaluation

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Course attendance NSAC NDIS/NDAC RIDE 2010 447,000 19,400 450 2011 772,000 20,400 600

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Our Priorities – Reducing Road Casualties

  • Financial cost of collisions
  • Vulnerable road user groups
  • Key causation factors
  • Enforcement options
  • Use of technology

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Our Priorities – Disrupting Criminality

  • What type of criminality?
  • How do we drive activity?
  • Partnership working
  • ANPR

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Our Priorities – Combating Anti-social Road Use

  • FPN for Section 3 Due Care
  • Education courses
  • Vehicle seizure
  • Roads policing in community policing

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Our Priorities – Countering Terrorism

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Our Priorities – Patrolling the Roads

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Our Challenge

  • Protecting the vulnerable
  • Working together in a wider road safety partnership
  • Government
  • Fire Service
  • Highways Authorities
  • Executive agencies
  • Victim support groups
  • Commercial representatives

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On the Horizon

  • DfT priorities from the road

safety framework

  • Changes to HA Traffic Officer Service
  • Development of NDORS
  • CLEAR initiative
  • Consultation on 80mph motorway limits
  • 20mph zones/limits

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Achieving Compliance with Road Traffic Law – The Police Perspective

Deputy Chief Constable Suzette Davenport ACPO Roads Policing

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