Dear Police "Service" of [insert region]
I appreciate fully that traffic cars are expensive, as is the training of officers to patrol in them, so I can see why the use of speed cameras is tempting.

Unfortunately, a camera on top of a pole, or some low-paid non-plod parked in a van at the side of the road pointing lasers at people is no help when there's a chavmobile mating with my exhaust pipe because the missing link behind the wheel is aggrieved that I'm somehow impeding his progress.

Your cash machines (sorry safety cameras) also have a blind spot when it comes to detecting the dickheads whose mobile phones are permanently stuck to their ears while they weave down the middle of the road or pull out in front of people they can't see because the arm holding the phone gets in the way.

Where are you when the pubs chuck out to catch the drunk drivers before they endanger everyone else who has the misfortune to be in their vicinity?

Where are you when the kids can't cross the road to school because drivers won't stop?

If that's what you call service, your definition differs from mine.

/rant
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sat 6 Mar 2010, 18:25, Reply)