1. Official! Speed cops are a dying breed
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...rs.” We don't think they are trained enough - and you need focussed officers to deal with our roads. Policing by camera does not save lives.   ...

2. Huge cost of speed cam abuse
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...machine which measures speed over a few hundred metres. “Durham has proved that they can keep the roads safe and reduce accidents without having to resort to speed cameras.” In the Cleve...

3. I am a nice, normal guy... but these cameras have to go
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...e is the sheer injustice of camera enforcement. “Cameras are just Government cash machines by the roadside. They make something like £120 million a year. “The thing is, if you are...

4. 2 in 5 drink drivers is 'foreign'
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...n keep banging on about, this is a problem which speed cameras cannot detect. We need police back on our roads to catch dangerous drivers, drink drivers and uninsured idiots. We do NOT need policing b...

5. Experts: Labour's transport policy has failed
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

....... Labour transport policy 'failing' The government accepts there is more traffic on the roads than 10 years ago. Ten years of government transport policy has been dismissed as "a...

6. Support this petition to prevent average speed cameras
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...he Government must not role out these tax based cameras that will increase danger for everyone using our roads and by signing this petition, you agree they should not be installed!   ...

7. Town votes to ditch speed cameras
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...e in the road safety partnership to deliver a plan that reduced the number of people being killed on the roads in Swindon." He said that in 2007/08 70 people had been killed on the streets of Swi...

8. Speeding charges fail due to unchecked speed gun
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...dence of the 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 devi...

9. NEW SPEED CAM WAR ON DRIVERS
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...ntenance companies who look after the equipment. “This cash cow will not reduce the deaths on the roads. It’s all about the money. “I’m sure the 30 million voting motoring pu...

10. 999 cops to get speeding fines
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...e over what is a sensible move to prevent idiot officers doing 'Starskey and Hutch' moves on our roads. It's always a pleasure seeing an on-duty officer being nailed for speeding (and it&...

11. Captain Gatso: No room on roads for drink drivers
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

I've been hearing this all over the radio in the South East; it's probably not been in the local London papers or on TV yet so we will see! However, as much as I hate the idea of driving whil

12. Captain Gatso: Hear me on the James Whale radio show tonight!
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...even drink drivers - they don't even make drivers afraid of taking the risk. Put more police on our roads, fewer cameras and get Britain's roads back to being the safest in Europe! Tonight: ...

13. Lorry drivers to shut down London roads in capital's largest-ever fuel protest TODAY!
(News/General)

Lorry drivers are to pour into London for what organisers hope will be the largest-ever fuel duty protest in the capital. Hauliers are angry at soaring fuel prices which have resulted in the average

14. Drivers' curse takes over county's roads
(News/Police and The Law)

...cers in Lancashire has dropped to a five-year low. There are now just 184 officers patrolling Lancashire roads – a fall of 13 on the year before and the lowest since 2002. The number of speed c...

15. Speed cameras in their sights
(News/Police and The Law)

...dents of Sussex are fed up with the cameras. "They are not seeing a reduction in casualties on the roads. "We will be in action right through the summer taking a stand against speed camera...

16. Captain Gatso: Have police crackdowns for all crimes
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...eras in the county, between Monday, April 21 and Sunday, April 27. Sgt Steve Knight, from Suffolk's roads policing unit, said the aim was to help make the county safer for drivers, cyclists and p...

17. New road tax charges sees families stiffed by £245 a year
(News/General)

...9;negative equity', with their loan arrangements worth more than the vehicle. Paul Watters, head of roads policy at the AA, said: "The Government presented the changes as a means of influenc...

18. Most drivers doubt road pricing plans
(News/General)

...f road pricing was introduced. AA president Edmund King said: "Road pricing is unnecessary on most roads, unpopular and difficult to implement socially, politically, financially and practically....

19. Secret pact allows the US to spy on UK motorists
(News/Police and The Law)

... Under the authorisation signed last July 4 by Jacqui Smith, video feeds and still images captured from roadside TV cameras, along with personal data derived from them, can be transmitted out of the ...

20. Just TWO speeding tickets and you could be banned from driving
(News/Police and The Law)

...forced by a massive expansion of digital cameras which record average speeds rather than the fixed-point roadside Gatsos. ...

21. UK roads littered with danger
(News/General)

Research carried out by Motorpoint, a leading car supermarket, has revealed British motorists face a daily battle against road debris. Motorpoint's research demonstrated a surprising 89 per cent

22. Rising costs drive motorists off the road
(News/General)

Rising insurance premiums, petrol prices and car maintenance costs are pushing drivers off the roads and onto public transport, according to MoneyExpert.com. The independent financial comparison webs

23. UK vigilantes take out three speed cameras in one day
(News/General)

...speed camera located on the A14 near Quy. The device had been installed on one of the area's busiest roads to maintain a high level of violations. Officials must now pay £24,000 to resume ...

24. Improvement needed in UK road maintenance
(News/General)

...t Transport Association (FTA), which has also argued that local authority funding for the improvement of roads should not be siphoned off and used for other purposes. A new report by the Asphalt Indu...

25. Former cop escapes dangerous driving charge despite speeding at 118mph
(News/Police and The Law)

...4 on the A9 between Bridge of Allan and Perth, near Auchterarder, at 11.45pm onMarch 14. McKay failed a roadside breath test and was taken to Tayside Police HQ in Perth, where he once worked. McKay,...

26. More than 2m untaxed and uninsured drivers on our roads
(News/Police and The Law)

...her road users. The direct result of Labour's incompetence in dealing with rogue drivers is that our roads are more dangerous.' The Department for Transport figures show the estimated number ...

27. CAPTAIN GATSO: Axe the tax
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...in it's only those law-abiding motorists who will lose out. Don't register your car and use the roads freely (you are unlikely to get caught) and none of this nonsense will be of interest to ...

28. Horseboxes could be used to catch speeders in North Wales
(News/Police and The Law)

...ave converted a horsebox into a stealth speed camera to catch out speeding motorists on the region's roads. An 'insider' has claimed to Motorcycle News that the device is being trialled o...

29. More speed cameras for Norfolk
(News/Police and The Law)

...that doesn't catch anybody because that way it is achieving its aim of reducing speed and making the roads safer. "But if people continue to take risks they are going to find it more and mor...

30. 15mph speed limit to force people out of cars
(News/General)

Speed limits of just 15 miles-per-hour are to be introduced on major roads in planned new towns across the country as part of an effort to reduce global warming. Caroline Flint, the housing minister,