Police on day-long road safety patrol stop 60 drivers for breaking the law

1:00pm Wednesday 20th February 2013 in News By Juliette Astrup

SURROUNDED: Out and about with Dorset Police during the Dorset Road Safe ‘Surround a Town’ crackdown across Bournemouth. Traffic Officer PC Graham Davis issues a fixed penalty ticket to a motorist caught speeding on the Dorset Way SURROUNDED: Out and about with Dorset Police during the Dorset Road Safe ‘Surround a Town’ crackdown across Bournemouth. Traffic Officer PC Graham Davis issues a fixed penalty ticket to a motorist caught speeding on the Dorset Way

TRAFFIC police on a day-long road safety crackdown stopped more than 60 drivers, including 35 driving without seatbelts, and 14 talking on mobiles.

The 10-hour ‘Surround a Town’ action last Wednesday saw officers patrolling the main roads to tackle motoring offences and bad driving.

Among those stopped were seven people speeding, one without an MOT, another without insurance, a learner without L-plates, as well as a driver drinking from a flask, and another chomping on a large roll.

Six more motorists were stopped and given advice on issues including tailgating and tinted windows.

Those caught not wearing their seatbelts were asked to attend a free seatbelt course, and drivers seen using their mobile phone or speeding were offered a future drivers' awareness course costing £110. These courses, held at Streetwise in Bournemouth that day, replace the traditional fine.

The day also included education for children, with Dorset Road Safe at Manorside Combined School talking to youngsters aged five to 12 about the importance of road and cycle safety.

While safer neighbourhood officers were stationed outside the school ready to offer words of advice to parents spotted parking on single yellow lines, in bus stops and on the zig zags when dropping their children off.

Children seen cycling to school without lights were also issued with free ones to keep them safe on the roads.

Inspector Matt Butler, from Dorset Police Traffic Section said: “Surround a Town brings together a number of initiatives to reduce road casualties. We target and educate vulnerable road users together with motorists committing road traffic offences that lead to increased casualties.

“We will continue to enforce all traffic offences in an attempt to keep Dorset road users safe.”

The figures from Surround A town initiative

  • 35 seatbelt offences, 7 speeding offences
  • 14 mobile phone offences 
  • 6 vehicles were stopped and given words of advice in relation to various issues such as tailgating and tinted windows
  • 2 vehicles were stopped as the drivers were deemed to not be in complete control of their vehicle – one was drinking from a flask and one was eating a large roll – words of advice were given to both drivers
  • 1 vehicle was stopped and found to have no valid MOT
  • 1 vehicle was stopped and the driver was found to have no insurance
  • 1 vehicle was stopped as the driver was a learner and not displaying ‘L’ plates

Comments(40)

l'anglais says...
1:05pm Wed 20 Feb 13

In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun.

Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.

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TinyLegacy says...
1:16pm Wed 20 Feb 13

l'anglais wrote:
In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun.

Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.

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l'anglais says...
1:22pm Wed 20 Feb 13

TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun.

Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché.
If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.

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lilliputcherry says...
1:23pm Wed 20 Feb 13

What we really want to know is what filling did the 'large roll' contain and what was in the 'flask'?

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bournenbred says...
1:36pm Wed 20 Feb 13

lilliputcherry wrote:
What we really want to know is what filling did the 'large roll' contain and what was in the 'flask'?
Horsemeat and fake vodka.

They weren't really after the motorists :-)

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TinyLegacy says...
1:39pm Wed 20 Feb 13

l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun.

Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché.
If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
Yes, a comforting thought for anyone who's lost a loved one thanks to a motorist who shouldn't have been on the road. It's called 'pro-active' policing... Unfortunately the likes of muggers, rapists etc don't walk around with billboard signs.

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Tango Charlie says...
1:44pm Wed 20 Feb 13

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In 2011 there were 25,122 people killed or serously injured on the uk's roads. That is 483 a week! The same as a full Airbus 380 crashing. Who thinks that this is safe?

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speedy231278 says...
1:56pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Did they stop any Special Constables using a mobile phone on their lap?

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Lord gungedin of Ferndown says...
2:03pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Pathetic. When will they learn? And they wonder why they have lost the support and confidence of the public!

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FNS-man says...
2:18pm Wed 20 Feb 13

l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote: In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun. Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché. If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
So who kills kids? It's not people with guns. It is people in cars.

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Allyssia says...
2:41pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Meanwhile houses are getting burgled, feral kids are running riot and mini-motos roam the streets. But some poor motorist was seen getting a patronising lecture because he was speeding on a, wait for it - bypass. Whooo what an easy target. Way to go Police - well done. I suppose one crumb of comfort that with these cuts to the Police, there will be less of these ever so pleasant traffic cops. I agree more Police on the beat please. Can't remember the last one I saw patrolling......

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djd says...
2:43pm Wed 20 Feb 13

I am pleased that Dorset Police have these 'initiative days'.
There are so many people driving who couldn't care less about other drivers' safety, and obviously their own.
If this stop just one person being killed or seriously injured on the roads, surely it's worth it.
As for the idiots with no seat belts and using mobile phones, they are just beyond contempt.

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l'anglais says...
2:45pm Wed 20 Feb 13

FNS-man wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote: In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun. Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché. If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
So who kills kids? It's not people with guns. It is people in cars.
Dunblane? Connecticut last Christmas?

Don't tell me some nutter in a Fiesta did it.

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l'anglais says...
2:49pm Wed 20 Feb 13

TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun.

Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché.
If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
Yes, a comforting thought for anyone who's lost a loved one thanks to a motorist who shouldn't have been on the road. It's called 'pro-active' policing... Unfortunately the likes of muggers, rapists etc don't walk around with billboard signs.
Therefore the need for extra vigilance in tracking muggers, rapists etc...

Stopping 35 non-seat belt wearers, isn't a threat to your children or mine.

Keeping an eye on those recidivists just been let out after doing a 10 stretch for murder is far more relevant to the future welfare of our kids.

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retry69 says...
2:57pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Allyssia wrote:
Meanwhile houses are getting burgled, feral kids are running riot and mini-motos roam the streets. But some poor motorist was seen getting a patronising lecture because he was speeding on a, wait for it - bypass. Whooo what an easy target. Way to go Police - well done. I suppose one crumb of comfort that with these cuts to the Police, there will be less of these ever so pleasant traffic cops. I agree more Police on the beat please. Can't remember the last one I saw patrolling......
PMS again its been rife this last couple of days

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hadvar says...
3:35pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Inspector Matt Butler, from Dorset Police Traffic Section said: “Surround a Town brings together a number of initiatives to reduce road casualties".

Stats or it didn't happen Inspector. Tell us exactly how many KSI 'surrounding towns' prevents.

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fixedthatforyou says...
3:56pm Wed 20 Feb 13

A number of studies show that not wearing a seat belt it a indicator of other criminal activities.
It has been shown that initiativedays like these can throw up a number of un expected results, including large hauls of drugs, and people wanted on warrants for more serious crimes.
As to the comment about Dunblane. a school shooting over fifteen years ago and in a country that has a seperate policing and legal system is a pointless staw man argument.

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scrumpyjack says...
3:59pm Wed 20 Feb 13

lilliputcherry wrote:
What we really want to know is what filling did the 'large roll' contain and what was in the 'flask'?
I have no real issue with them enforcing laws but this did make me raise an eyebrow.

Changing a CD or smoking, for example could be classes just as bad as taking a bit our of a roll, if not more so.

Seems a bit petty.

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scrumpyjack says...
4:09pm Wed 20 Feb 13

FNS-man wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote: In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun. Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché. If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
So who kills kids? It's not people with guns. It is people in cars.
Or Somalians.

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scrumpyjack says...
4:16pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Allyssia wrote:
Meanwhile houses are getting burgled, feral kids are running riot and mini-motos roam the streets. But some poor motorist was seen getting a patronising lecture because he was speeding on a, wait for it - bypass. Whooo what an easy target. Way to go Police - well done. I suppose one crumb of comfort that with these cuts to the Police, there will be less of these ever so pleasant traffic cops. I agree more Police on the beat please. Can't remember the last one I saw patrolling......
Officers 'on the beat' are statiscally likely to come across a crime in progress once every 7 years.

Good use of their time in fighting crime?

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scrumpyjack says...
4:19pm Wed 20 Feb 13

l'anglais wrote:
FNS-man wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote: In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun. Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché. If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
So who kills kids? It's not people with guns. It is people in cars.
Dunblane? Connecticut last Christmas?

Don't tell me some nutter in a Fiesta did it.
God you show yourself up.

Your best argument in defence of your ridiculous comments is an extraordinary event that happened 17 years ago and something that happened in a different country with completely different gun laws.

Oh yeah that'll do and show 'em who's boss.

*rolls eyes

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FNS-man says...
4:32pm Wed 20 Feb 13

l'anglais wrote:
FNS-man wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote: In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun. Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché. If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
So who kills kids? It's not people with guns. It is people in cars.
Dunblane? Connecticut last Christmas? Don't tell me some nutter in a Fiesta did it.
More people got killed on the roads last week than at Dunblane. Kids are killed in road accidents as passengers and pedestrians, not by escaped murderers, unless you are living in a detective novel.

And that is in a place where kids don't ride their bikes around. Imagine if we had the majority of kids cycling to school. There would be one killed every day with the way people currently drive.

Essentially the attitude of many people is unless you're an adult and drive a car then you can suffer in silence.

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Teddy 1 says...
4:33pm Wed 20 Feb 13

What town exactly were they 'surrounding'?

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ragj195 says...
4:33pm Wed 20 Feb 13

l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun.

Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché.
If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
Do you not think that drivers using their mobile phone while driving poses a serious threat to the safety of drivers and pedestrians around them?

Perhaps they should hit the beat and catch all those rapists hiding in bushes around town! Or those pesky clubbers that get into fights and pose a serious risk to my two kids. Not to mention the chav that wants to steal a bike from my garage worth all of £50.

Motorists, of which I am one, are a soft touch but that's because so many of them break the law. The fact is so much time could be saved by simply raising the penalty for using a mobile from measly 3 points to an instant 4 week ban.

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Teddy 1 says...
4:34pm Wed 20 Feb 13

..just realised this happened 8 days ago!! Very old news...

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l'anglais says...
5:15pm Wed 20 Feb 13

FNS-man wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
FNS-man wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote: In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun. Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché. If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
So who kills kids? It's not people with guns. It is people in cars.
Dunblane? Connecticut last Christmas? Don't tell me some nutter in a Fiesta did it.
More people got killed on the roads last week than at Dunblane. Kids are killed in road accidents as passengers and pedestrians, not by escaped murderers, unless you are living in a detective novel.

And that is in a place where kids don't ride their bikes around. Imagine if we had the majority of kids cycling to school. There would be one killed every day with the way people currently drive.

Essentially the attitude of many people is unless you're an adult and drive a car then you can suffer in silence.
Why this constant barrage of hatred towards car drivers.
There are many ways of getting injured and accidental death.
Far more people die from falls on stairs, steps etc.. than get killed on the Roads. Are we going to have policemen at the foot of every staircase.

I agree their are poor drivers out there, and yes there should be stiffer sentences, but stop targeting (profiteering) those engaged in poor road behaviour over other crimes taking place in our society.

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Molecatcher says...
5:23pm Wed 20 Feb 13

I'm surprised it was only 60... All the boys in blue would have to do is have a quick down Ringwood Road any week day morning at around 7.30. The standard of driving is so utterly appaling, they would have a field day.

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EGHH says...
5:31pm Wed 20 Feb 13

I'd sooner see this than a scamera van doing its one trick pony act. How many drivers committing offences but staying below the speed limit has the Scamera Partnership caught. Precisely none.

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retry69 says...
5:41pm Wed 20 Feb 13

ragj195 wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun.

Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché.
If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
Do you not think that drivers using their mobile phone while driving poses a serious threat to the safety of drivers and pedestrians around them?

Perhaps they should hit the beat and catch all those rapists hiding in bushes around town! Or those pesky clubbers that get into fights and pose a serious risk to my two kids. Not to mention the chav that wants to steal a bike from my garage worth all of £50.

Motorists, of which I am one, are a soft touch but that's because so many of them break the law. The fact is so much time could be saved by simply raising the penalty for using a mobile from measly 3 points to an instant 4 week ban.
4 week ban!!! Thats the problem the deterent is not there,driving while using a hand held mobile 6 months ban second offence crushed car,similar lines for speeding.No Excuses should mean just that.

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ragj195 says...
7:21pm Wed 20 Feb 13

retry69 wrote:
ragj195 wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun.

Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché.
If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
Do you not think that drivers using their mobile phone while driving poses a serious threat to the safety of drivers and pedestrians around them?

Perhaps they should hit the beat and catch all those rapists hiding in bushes around town! Or those pesky clubbers that get into fights and pose a serious risk to my two kids. Not to mention the chav that wants to steal a bike from my garage worth all of £50.

Motorists, of which I am one, are a soft touch but that's because so many of them break the law. The fact is so much time could be saved by simply raising the penalty for using a mobile from measly 3 points to an instant 4 week ban.
4 week ban!!! Thats the problem the deterent is not there,driving while using a hand held mobile 6 months ban second offence crushed car,similar lines for speeding.No Excuses should mean just that.
There are plenty of reasons why you can't crush the car. I'm sure Avis would have something to say about it!

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retry69 says...
8:49pm Wed 20 Feb 13

ragj195 wrote:
retry69 wrote:
ragj195 wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
TinyLegacy wrote:
l'anglais wrote:
In the meantime, some nutter is charging around Kinson with a gun.

Let's weigh up our targets & priorities, Gunman or Cash making opportunity, fleecing Car owners.
Yeah, i'm sure they dropped everything to go chasing cars. Grow up.
Touché.
If there were more bobbies on the beat around town centres and sensitive areas, rather than hidden in a unmarked car with a speed gun, then maybe we could all GROW UP in a safer society.
Do you not think that drivers using their mobile phone while driving poses a serious threat to the safety of drivers and pedestrians around them?

Perhaps they should hit the beat and catch all those rapists hiding in bushes around town! Or those pesky clubbers that get into fights and pose a serious risk to my two kids. Not to mention the chav that wants to steal a bike from my garage worth all of £50.

Motorists, of which I am one, are a soft touch but that's because so many of them break the law. The fact is so much time could be saved by simply raising the penalty for using a mobile from measly 3 points to an instant 4 week ban.
4 week ban!!! Thats the problem the deterent is not there,driving while using a hand held mobile 6 months ban second offence crushed car,similar lines for speeding.No Excuses should mean just that.
There are plenty of reasons why you can't crush the car. I'm sure Avis would have something to say about it!
There is always one smart ****

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DansAFCB says...
9:58pm Wed 20 Feb 13

So who is out catching the bastar.s who broke in to my mother in laws bungalow last Thursday on Castle Lane????? Police waste of space but hey at least it improves your solved crime rate!!!!!
The burglar only stole her lifetime jewellery collection but hey lets stop someone with no seat belt........ fuc.ing joke!!!!!!!!

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BIGTONE says...
10:30pm Wed 20 Feb 13

You're nicked my beauty.

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Hessenford says...
7:50am Thu 21 Feb 13

Bournemouth council tax frozen but police need extra funds, that's the reason behind these campaigns, real policing has gone out the window as there's no money to be made.

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large_cheese says...
10:19am Thu 21 Feb 13

Why do they care if an adult chooses not to wear a seat belt - sureley they will only hurt \ kill themselves. Natural selection I think it is called.

Fair enough if the driver is allowing younger passengers not to wear seatbelts.

Otherwise, waste of time.

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really?? seriously?? says...
10:56am Thu 21 Feb 13

speedy231278 wrote:
Did they stop any Special Constables using a mobile phone on their lap?
Yeah , but they let them off.....AGAIN.

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jill M says...
1:39pm Thu 21 Feb 13

really?? seriously?? wrote:
speedy231278 wrote:
Did they stop any Special Constables using a mobile phone on their lap?
Yeah , but they let them off.....AGAIN.
For goodness sake, why cannot you digest the facts, it was the CPS that decided not to prosecute, THE POLICE APPEALED AGAINST THE DECISION - oh what's the point, you just turn everything around to suit yourselves, you usually do.

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uvox44 says...
1:59pm Thu 21 Feb 13

oh no poor motorists got caught breaking the law! boo-hoo it's not fair, why are the police enforcing the law , so unfair, blah,blah, just a tax, blah , blah , waste of resources, sob, sob-give me strength!

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blahblahbleurgh says...
5:27pm Thu 21 Feb 13

If motorists stopped constantly breaking the law then the police would have no need to set up these things and people wouldnt then moan about being caught breaking the law

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dorsetspeed says...
5:57pm Thu 21 Feb 13

Perhaps, if Dorset Police were not breaking the law, in their quest to make huge amounts of money, by things like perverting the course of justice, false accounting, breach of duty of care, extortion, abusing power, withholding information and false representation (the last 3 the primary indicators of fraud), that would be a good start

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