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1. Congratulations to the Daily Star
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...qual.   A story in the Daily Mirror yesterday underlines this.   An incredible 99.9 per cent of police officers manage to dodge speed fines. Even the clowns at Brake say the figures are '...

2. The thin end of a very big wedge
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...you know of a really good shortcut? And, worst of all, these cameras will be linked up so the government/police can track you wherever you go. Or where you have been. Nu Labour = Big Brother.   ...

3. Official! Speed cops are a dying breed
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
This is not the way to enforce road safety standards. New Government figures reveal traffic police are offically a dying breed – with some forces slashing patrols by up to 84 per cent. The Depa

4. Huge cost of speed cam abuse
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...ion, expensive fuel and bus lanes which do nothing to ease congestion.” He also argued that Durham police have adopted the right approach by refusing to have any fixed-site speed cameras. He s...

...dside. They make something like £120 million a year. “The thing is, if you are stopped by a police officer they at least have the opportunity to use their discretion but with cameras the...

6. 2 in 5 drink drivers is 'foreign'
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...astern Europe where the same standards to drinking and driving don't seem to apply. Well done for the police in catching these people and then trying to highlight the issue. BUT.... As we here at ...

7. Town votes to ditch speed cameras
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...re will be no more fixed-point speed traps in the town does not mean motorists cannot be caught, he said. Police will still be out and about with hand-held speed-measuring devices. Mr Greenhalgh added...

8. Passport needed to buy mobile phones
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...geous bit of 1984 mission creep and no doubt jobs for the boys from the security services and down to the Police! Tell me these jokers are out on their a r s e s come Election night? Also, if any of y...

...ed to use the correct wording - and one was quashed at appeal last week. Robert Southgate, a 47-year-old police constable from Hendon, was fined £120 for driving in a bus lane in The Hyde on 28...

... case. There are more than 40 type approved devices used to measure speed on the UK’s roads by the police. Type approval means that the Home Office has approved the use of the device for the p...

11. NEW SPEED CAM WAR ON DRIVERS
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
... Detection – said: “The only people benefiting from this new scam will be the government, the police, the Speed Camera Partnerships and the technology and maintenance companies who look af...

12. The PCSOs are on the rise!
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
My views on PCSOs are well known - they aren't trained police officers and tend to attract the type of clown who loves wearing a uniform to boss people about. And in today's Daily Mail it

13. 999 cops to get speeding fines
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...ail. And I'm all for it. Here at MAD we don't have any trouble with fully trained and qualified police drivers using their vehicles to get to incidents at a high speed. However, we do have ...

...ill catch you). Stalin would be proud of the Labour Party. More than a million people have their DNA on a police database - even though they have done nothing wrong. Thousands of school children are f...

...what this means is that London a Metropolis of twelve million people and God knows how many cars is being Policed by 10 Traffic cars if we are very lucky, the Met are not shoving loads of extra resour...

16. Captain Gatso: M11 at Chigwell fiasco
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
...get your money back. The people contacting me have been telling me that they have letters from the Essex Police and the Safety Camera Partnership but they have decided not to 'take any further ac...

...hands in this issue because if they weren't relying on cameras to enforce the laws we would have more police om patrol. No-one in their right mind would think of using a motorway knowing that the...

...have discovered a very simple point of law, which I have checked out with both ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) and with Solicitor friends of mine and it all stands up Legally! Yes, folks ...

...at this means is that London, a Metropolis of twelve million people and God knows how many cars, is being Policed by 10 Traffic cars if we are very lucky, the Met are not shoving loads of extra resour...

...orries, left Birch services just after 0800 BST on junction 18 of the M62, to head into the city centre. Police used rolling-roadblocks to keep disruption to a minimum, but traffic backed up behind t...

...are being allowed to initiate surveillance operations in what privacy campaigners likened to Eastern bloc police tactics. The Home Office is expected to be urged by the Commons Home Affairs select co...

...y identity on the front of their vehicle - so why should cyclists escape this Orwellian nightmare that is police state Britain in 2008 policed by cameras? I think this is the usual labour tactic - if...

23. Captain Gatso: Cyclists must obey the law
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
... caught on CCTV cameras, just as motorists are, when they ignore no-entry signs and jump red lights. If a police officer saw a cyclist without a bib, he could pull the cyclist over automatically as he...

24. Captain Gatso: SAS on standby
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)
Today witnessed the culmination of two years work by multi-agency staff including those of the Met police, Interpol, the CIA and FBI and the UK's security services. It was one of the biggest raids

...as – which last year exceeded £3.4m. Now drivers' groups are angry over what they see as police profiting from the scheme. The latest available figures were unveiled under the Freedo...

...siter's Questions in Parliament on a Wednesday. And why exactly were you all complying with what the police wanted? Where is the protest in that? Hundreds of lorry drivers have staged a protest...

This story about Portsmouth football manager Harry Redknapp proves yet again just how inept our police force is and raises some interesting questions. Firsly, well done Harry for taking the police on

...t never accepts responsibility for wrong-doing. But the biggest heartache for everyone is the rise of the police, 'anti terror' legislation and the faceless speed camera partnerships.  I...

...re from the NiPs (speed tickets) thus making all prosecutions null and void."  Three Lancashire police workers are to face disciplinary action following a probe into incorrectly issued speed...

30. Drink-drive Pc damaged four cars
(News/Police and The Law)
A police officer who damaged four other cars during a shunt in a busy supermarket car park was over the drink-driving limit, a court has heard. Stephen Rosher, 37, of Wrexham, could be sacked by Nort

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