Wombles to be allowed to do us for speeding?

[Johnnytheboy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4170068/Ra...

Highways England staff may be given limited powers to issue tickets for offences including speeding.

Well, I never saw that coming...

[E36GUY]

You can just imagine them rubbing their hands with glee

[0000]

CC Suzette Davenport said:

My desire is to get the maximum safety and security on our roads

This will give us neither.

I wonder if the wombles even want this, it's bad enough with people bunching behind them thinking they're Police as it is.

[HantsRat]

Won't happen.

[surveyor]

I'm not surprised - but I don't necessarily believe anything that the Daily Mail publishes though.

[silverfoxcc]

E36GUY said:

You can just imagine them rubbing their hands with glee

And unable to get out of the car due to the huge erections they will have

'Gee Harry this is better than sex, authority at last!!!!'

[Swampy1982]

I thought Wombles were the guys who worked at the tip... thats what i've always called them anyway

[Red Devil]

Daily Fail article said:

The proposal is included in a paper put forward by police chiefs in response to the Government’s Strategic Defence and Security Review.

WTF has speeding and using a mobile got to do with the defence and security of this septic sceptred isle? Maybe we are all regarded as potential terrorists now.

Or is it just another bit of DF made-up journalism?

[fat80b]

Swampy1982 said:

I thought Wombles were the guys who worked at the tip... thats what i've always called them anyway

These are specifically "Motorway Wombles" responsible for tidying the rubbish away after a Motorway incident.

Bob

[speedking31]

I always thought it suspicious how they started with amber lights on the roof, which were later changed to white lighting bars so you couldn't differentiate between them and police blue lights inside white covers. Now I see where that is headed.

[Johnnytheboy]

speedking31 said:

I always thought it suspicious how they started with amber lights on the roof, which were later changed to white lighting bars so you couldn't differentiate between them and police blue lights inside white covers. Now I see where that is headed.

Yes, I have thought that.

Whoever designs their vehicles hasn't exactly gone out of their way to make them look different from police cars.

[Biker 1]

Johnnytheboy said:

Yes, I have thought that.

Whoever designs their vehicles hasn't exactly gone out of their way to make them look different from police cars.

Its amazing how drivers suddenly slow down when they spot these vehicles.....

[Johnnytheboy]

Some drivers

[Derek Smith]

This was the plan for the start, although inept cuts to funding have meant implementation was delayed.

Given the swingeing cuts to the police service, hiving off some of its responsibilities must be seen as inevitable. It is, essentially, privatisation. First there was parking, now, possibly, this.

In the same way as the old days of police traffic wardens are now seen at the golden age of parking, extending traffic regulation enforcement to non-warranted units will be seen as a tragedy for drivers.

Welcome to the new world, same as the old world, but it will cost a lot more.

[kiethton]

Well if they ant to do this they can fine you but surely they can't impose penalty points/bans? - much in the way council parking wardens operate?

[rewc]

kiethton said:

Well if they ant to do this they can fine you but surely they can't impose penalty points/bans? - much in the way council parking wardens operate?

Why not? Are they any different than camera partnerships that have had the powers of detection entrusted to them by the CC? Of course they will have to be prepared to have their evidence tested in court

[speedking31]

kiethton said:

Well if they ant to do this they can fine you but surely they can't impose penalty points/bans?

They don't have to. They just send a letter asking you to confess and then the points are automatically applied, no need for all that expensive court malarkey. Next step dashcam 'evidence' and citizen enforcement by local resident's groups.

[Elroy Blue]

Johnnytheboy said:

Yes, I have thought that.

Whoever designs their vehicles hasn't exactly gone out of their way to make them look different from police cars.

That's because of regulations regarding reflective markings for vehicles working in a m/way. You can take the tin foil off.

[kiethton]

anonymous said:

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So the roads more appropriate for higher speeds then...

[Johnnytheboy]

Elroy Blue said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Yes, I have thought that.

Whoever designs their vehicles hasn't exactly gone out of their way to make them look different from police cars.

That's because of regulations regarding reflective markings for vehicles working in a m/way. You can take the tin foil off.

Does that explain the black glass yellow beacons?