Globalti
Legendary Member
Cut & pasted from the Soapbox:
There are so many threads about motorist aggression on this forum that I thought I'd let you know what I have found out about this. Almost every time the poster has done nothing about it, probably because they don't think it will make any difference if they complain. Well, it WILL. Here's why:
The Police have been given new powers to use the Police National Computer more effectively. Until now they had no choice but to ignore uncorroborated reports of bad driving from members of the public. Now they are allowed to "tag" licence numbers with reports phoned in by the public. If a vehicle receives another report it will be flagged up on the computer as a problem vehicle and after the fourth the owner will receive a visit from the Police and be given a "producer" notice to bring their documents to the Police staton. Don't forget that Police traffic cars also have ANPR technology so any car, which has been tagged will attract attention.
We members of our residents' action group have already used this several times to report habitual speeders in our street. The Police are happy to take the call, after all it's just using existing technology to its best advantage. Recenty we reported a chavvy Peugeot for racing down our street and the officer said "Oh we know that one already". She told me it was a local driver and he would now be receiving the visit. Since most of the people who speed in our road are local drivers who know it's a short cut, this is an entirely appropriate way of protecting our children and our quality of life.
So go ahead, get the non-emergency number for your local Police force and store it on your cellphone. For Lancashire Police it's 0845 1 25 35 45 and for Greater Manchester it's 0161 872 5050. The Police are waiting for your calls.
.....now some PC clever dick off this forum will come along and tell me this is an abuse of criminals' human rights.....
There are so many threads about motorist aggression on this forum that I thought I'd let you know what I have found out about this. Almost every time the poster has done nothing about it, probably because they don't think it will make any difference if they complain. Well, it WILL. Here's why:
The Police have been given new powers to use the Police National Computer more effectively. Until now they had no choice but to ignore uncorroborated reports of bad driving from members of the public. Now they are allowed to "tag" licence numbers with reports phoned in by the public. If a vehicle receives another report it will be flagged up on the computer as a problem vehicle and after the fourth the owner will receive a visit from the Police and be given a "producer" notice to bring their documents to the Police staton. Don't forget that Police traffic cars also have ANPR technology so any car, which has been tagged will attract attention.
We members of our residents' action group have already used this several times to report habitual speeders in our street. The Police are happy to take the call, after all it's just using existing technology to its best advantage. Recenty we reported a chavvy Peugeot for racing down our street and the officer said "Oh we know that one already". She told me it was a local driver and he would now be receiving the visit. Since most of the people who speed in our road are local drivers who know it's a short cut, this is an entirely appropriate way of protecting our children and our quality of life.
So go ahead, get the non-emergency number for your local Police force and store it on your cellphone. For Lancashire Police it's 0845 1 25 35 45 and for Greater Manchester it's 0161 872 5050. The Police are waiting for your calls.
.....now some PC clever dick off this forum will come along and tell me this is an abuse of criminals' human rights.....