Traffic Wardens
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Do traffic wardens have the power to stop traffic?
In this area the control of parking has been taken out of the hands of the police and is now enforced by the local authority.
I was behind a car containing two traffic wardens, sat at a junction waiting to join the flow of traffic. The wardens were obviously in a hurry, because the passenger got out and held his hand up to stop the traffic so that his car could pull into the flow.
Is this legal?
In this area the control of parking has been taken out of the hands of the police and is now enforced by the local authority.
I was behind a car containing two traffic wardens, sat at a junction waiting to join the flow of traffic. The wardens were obviously in a hurry, because the passenger got out and held his hand up to stop the traffic so that his car could pull into the flow.
Is this legal?
Sorry Mungo wrong - go to Serges in tray and right at the bottom have a look at Function of Traffic Wardens Order 1960 with the various amendments and also Traffic Management Act 2004 Section 6 and all the powers of the new all singing/dancing Traffic officers (non police clones).
Understand also that VOSA/Trading Standards have the power or are about to get the power to stop vehicles for weighing/testing which used to be only the sole power of a Constable in uniform.
Your being replaced and the Federation are doing nothing about it???????
DVD
Understand also that VOSA/Trading Standards have the power or are about to get the power to stop vehicles for weighing/testing which used to be only the sole power of a Constable in uniform.
Your being replaced and the Federation are doing nothing about it???????
DVD
mungo said:
I stand corrected. I must admit though I did hesitate before saying that but I was 98% sure I was right there... What about armed forces, don't they have a power to stop traffic too in certain cirmustances (thinking about road blocks etc in places such as N.Ireland)?
SA80s and handgrenades are sure good traffic stoppers.
niceguy1 said:
mungo said:
I stand corrected. I must admit though I did hesitate before saying that but I was 98% sure I was right there... What about armed forces, don't they have a power to stop traffic too in certain cirmustances (thinking about road blocks etc in places such as N.Ireland)?
SA80s and handgrenades are sure good traffic stoppers.
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>> Edited by Streetcop on Saturday 14th August 18:56
Flat in Fifth said:
go to Serges in tray
Who is this Serge?
Please please don't tell me that following water, electricity and refuse disposal, to name but three, that poor old Plod is now subcontracted out to the French.
Admiral Nelson will be spinning......
Hey! He is! He is! But that's "Privitisation" isn't it! What everyone voted for in the 80-90's. GREAT!! Isn't it? Thatcher- Thatcher - Thatcher Right!!! don't bloody complain now! You GOT what you voted for!
Sorry,If I got you wrong OM, please reply if I misunderstood.
Dwight VanDriver said:
Sorry Mungo wrong - go to Serges in tray and right at the bottom have a look at Function of Traffic Wardens Order 1960 with the various amendments and also Traffic Management Act 2004 Section 6 and all the powers of the new all singing/dancing Traffic officers (non police clones).
Understand also that VOSA/Trading Standards have the power or are about to get the power to stop vehicles for weighing/testing which used to be only the sole power of a Constable in uniform.
Your being replaced and the Federation are doing nothing about it???????
DVD
Saw a VOSA vehicle pull over a white van on the M62 the other day. The VOSA vehicle was sat on the hard shoulder where the BiB cars usually sit, saw a vehicle he didnt like and chased after it with a flashing 'follow me' message.
>> Edited by r32 on Monday 16th August 09:50
welsh blackbird said:
Do traffic wardens have the power to stop traffic?
Yup.
welsh blackbird said:
In this area the control of parking has been taken out of the hands of the police and is now enforced by the local authority.
Parking attendants ARE NOT traffic wardens - two different things entirely. Parking attendants are employed by money-grubbing councils to increase revenue - fullstop - by issuing parking tickets only and are almost always subbed out to an even more money-grubbing services company that doesn't give two sh!ts about traffic flow, just how much profit they make. Can't really blame them as they're only playing the game by the rules the Government has set down.
Traffic wardens are employed by the local constabulary and have some limited police-type powers, such as being able to stop/direct traffic, move you along etc. which parking attendants can't.
welsh blackbird said:
I was behind a car containing two traffic wardens, sat at a junction waiting to join the flow of traffic. The wardens were obviously in a hurry, because the passenger got out and held his hand up to stop the traffic so that his car could pull into the flow.
Is this legal?
If they were traffic wardens, yes...if not, probably not.
mad jock said:
But that's "Privitisation" isn't it! What everyone voted for in the 80-90's.
What is this "Privitisation"? Are well being forced to have hedges around our gardens? I think we should be told the truth!
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That would be "privetisation" surely
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