ROAD OFFENCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 5

ROAD OFFENCES

EDUCATION SCHEME FAVOURED IN ENGLAND. MOVE TO IMPROVE MANNERS. “A comprehensive attempt is now to be made to develop a greater spirit of co-operation between mobile police and the public,” said Mr C. Douglas Campbell, speaking of the New Police Road Patrols in England. “About a year ago, the Home Office came to the conclusion that prosecutions/for road offences were not yielding satisfactory, results so far as accidents and road manners were concerned. They felt that the most likely way to improve things would be through a widespread scheme of education, in which the public would be assisted by precept and example to make the roads safer and easier to travel upon. To this end they put into effect plans for a substantial addition of men to the mobile police force in certain areas. These new recruits, together with the existing forces, are trained in the usual manner and they receive, in addition, special instruction in the new technique of educating the road user. They won’t all be equipped with motor-cars. Some will have motor-cycles, some will have bicycles, and some will even be on foot, because the scheme is designed to cover all types of road users, whether motorists, cyclists or pedestrians. The work of the new forces will be to educate the public in the etiquette of the road and to develop a closer observance of the excellent set of maxims in the Highway Code.”