“First - many thanks to all the police - and all the hidden support staff too! - who do a difficult job on the whole extremely well. We never ever get to hear about the good things our police do.
Beth - point taken but statistically young driver do cause more issues - the baseball cap brigade - however the BNW set are just as bad - racing to their next drug deal or business appointment.
Ranter - excellent point about the potholes - this must be the council's twisted logic - save money not putting those idiot speed bumpos and let the roads fall into rack and ruin - hey presto - the potholes are more effective than speed bumps or speed cameras.
Oswald - yes very witty...nice one, I'm sure our boys in blue will also see the funny side.”

“is the "police slow" sign a confession ?”

“I am absolutely outraged that police are targetting young drivers and bikers! As a young person myself who has a passion for bikes I feel very victimised just because of my age and passion. Young drivers & bikers are not the cause of accidents, idiotic drivers who need to read the highway code again are. My entire family are bikers and they are the most careful drivers I know, I admit some young drivers are bad but I hate to be tarred with the same brush. We are not all bad. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels the same.”

“Dave... I would much rather deal with the low life criminals who go around mugging and burgling than traffic offences (unless they are obviously stupid & dangerous). The problem I have is how many times do I have to arrest the same person, for the same offence for them to go in front of the magistrate / judges and be told don't do it again. slap on the wrist.

Dave, your misguided if you think the police sit on their @rses waiting for someone to give a ticket too. I haven't given a ticket out since Christmas but i've locked up a number of people for burglary & assaults in that time but then the public are never told about that!”

“So the police will continue to concentrate on an area where we have about the best record in Europe instead of areas where we have the worst record. Still, it is easier to sit in a car concentrating on motorists instead of dealing with rapists, muggers and other violent criminals or having to actual do some police worl and find burglars etc.
It is obvious a lot of the credit goes to safer cars, stronger construction, better brakes etc.
The year the driving test was introduced there were 7,000 road deaths with just over 2 million vehicles on the road. Now, with 27 million vehicles on the road the deaths were about 3,500 which at the 1935 rate would have lead to 94,500 deaths.
What a shame all the other crime figures haven't come down to the same extent instead of rocketing up the other way.
Still, let's concentrate on the motorists. And indulge in a nice little earner.”

“I think Pc Dennis should have given some credit to the contribution that the potholes have made to road safety by encouraging motorists to slow down.”

“Eric.... Are you saying the members of the public don't report serious injuries? If so thats a load of tosh. The police are always informed of serious injuries by ambulance/fire/directly or from other members of the public... If you were saying under reporting for minor injuries then thats quite possible.”

“Serious injuries fall due to under-reporting and long term trends (such as better car design.
The only reliable measure of improved road safety is the number of fatalities and, while they declare 23 for 2009, that measure is not reported for the previous two years. Now why would that be.
This is based on a carefully worded press release claiming success when I suspect we are looking here at failure.”

“Not a mention of Speed Cameras. Are they actually admitting that they do not contribute to road safety?”