Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban is off

[Kickstart]

Hi

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1808811,00.html

Brunstrom, Chief Constable of North Wales is resigning from his position as head of road policing at the acpo.

Pity it looks like he is trying to push through changes to allow more cameras before then.

All the best

Keith
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[innominate]

Aww, I was hoping he had some horrible accident.

Preferably involving breaking for a Speed Camara site....
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[killa]

In a valedictory interview with The Times, Mr Brunstrom admitted that he had failed to foresee the strength of public opposition to cameras and should have taken steps to reassure drivers that they were not simply money-making devices.

Take away the fine and only endorse points.

He has been lampooned by anti-camera campaigners for overseeing the huge growth in the number of cameras. There are now 6,000 sites and more than two million drivers were caught last year.

Glad to see the death threats did the job

He said the board was considering allowing cameras to be used at sites where there had been crashes which resulted in only slight injuries.

If struck by a car speeding over 30mph you don’t come away with slight injuries.

There were 38,000 deaths or serious injuries last year and 246,000 slight injuries.

Anyone got a definition of slight when involving a speeding car?

Mr Brunstrom said: “If we changed the criteria to include slight injuries then the likelihood is we would have more camera sites. There is an emerging consensus that the time is now right to discuss revising the rules.” But he said he remained opposed to random placement of cameras because that would erode public confidence in the fairness of the system. “We don’t intend to have cameras strapped to every lamppost. There will be a lot more flexibility perhaps about where cameras are used but there won’t necessarily be more cameras. We could use existing mobile cameras to enforce the new sites or we could put more camera housings up but have fewer cameras in them.”

Most roads will eventually have accidents, how can he say there won’t be more cameras?
Did he mean he might put up more boxes but with no cameras in them?
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[innominate]

Not getting to the root of the problem.

Mr Brunstrom said: “Parents often write to us and ask us to put a camera outside a school because the traffic is so dangerous."

& did you think he mentioned to them that the amount of traffic at school opening/closing times, due to said parents, is the biggest cause of accidents.
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I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the customs agent. I am the coast-guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable.

[Kickstart]

[Mr.Everready]

Well if he's going don't expect someone just as bad to take up his reigns ?
All those high level coppers seeing the media coverage this guy gets will be jumping up and down for a chance to fill his boots.
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