Police Scotland take odd stance on road safety

[classic33]

[QUOTE 5282345, member: 9609"]is there a name / contact info for who is running this ?[/QUOTE]
I went via the site, and got the response from there.

 

[snorri]

[QUOTE 5282345, member: 9609"]is there a name / contact info for who is running this ?[/QUOTE]
Here is the response in full......

Good Morning Mr XXXX

Thank you for your enquiry regarding the forthcoming vulnerable road user campaign.

Police Scotland is committed to reducing road casualties, in collaboration with our partners, to meet the Scottish Governments 2020 road casualty reduction targets.
The Scottish Governments Road Safety Framework has identified the following priority areas for focused activity up to 2020;

• Speed,
• Motorcyclists,
• Pre-drivers,
• Young and older drivers,
• cyclists and pedestrians.
  
  The key aims of Road Policing Officers, within Police Scotland is to influence road user behaviour and reduce casualties to make Scotland`s roads safer, tackle road crime and detect and deter all types of criminality on the roads.
  
  
  
  Each year Police Scotland and, in particular road policing officers, in addition to their day to day core business of contributing to these casualty reduction targets, carry out several campaigns aimed at specific areas, such as speeding, mobile phones, drink driving, motor cyclists, vulnerable road users etc..
  
  
  The key purpose of the vulnerable road user campaign is to promote the safe sharing of joint road space and to highlight the road safety message that pedestrians and cyclists are equal road users with the same rights as motor vehicle drivers. Over the course of the campaign road policing officers deploy with the intention of;
  
  
  • Reducing the number of casualties resulting from road collisions and improve road user behaviour,
  
  
  • Interacting with vulnerable road users and drivers to raise awareness through education and enforcement,
  • Enforcing the core road traffic offences which contribute to road collision casualties.
  
  
  Initiatives such as Operation Close Pass, a scheme designed to tackle the close passing of cyclists will operate during the campaign. As I have previously indicated the ethos of the campaign is to highlight that all road users require to assume an element of responsibility for their own safety and that of others.
  
  
  I hope that this is of assistance.
  
  
  Yours faithfully.
  
  
  
  
  
  Keith Sutherland
  
  Constable
  
  
  Road Policing Management Support (Policy)
  
  Police Scotland / Poileas Alba
  
  Office 4.3
  
  4th Floor
  
  Barrack Street
  
  Perth
  
  PH1 5SF
  
  
  
  
  

 

[Drago]

We'll let him off cos he was brilliant in Kelly's Heroes.

 

[gaijintendo]

I used be a terrible road using cyclist before I reached perfection. Thank goodness for press releases!

 

[classic33]

Here is the response in full......

Good Morning Mr XXXX

Thank you for your enquiry regarding the forthcoming vulnerable road user campaign.

Police Scotland is committed to reducing road casualties, in collaboration with our partners, to meet the Scottish Governments 2020 road casualty reduction targets.
The Scottish Governments Road Safety Framework has identified the following priority areas for focused activity up to 2020;

• Speed,
• Motorcyclists,
• Pre-drivers,
• Young and older drivers,
• cyclists and pedestrians.
  
  The key aims of Road Policing Officers, within Police Scotland is to influence road user behaviour and reduce casualties to make Scotland`s roads safer, tackle road crime and detect and deter all types of criminality on the roads.
  
  
  
  Each year Police Scotland and, in particular road policing officers, in addition to their day to day core business of contributing to these casualty reduction targets, carry out several campaigns aimed at specific areas, such as speeding, mobile phones, drink driving, motor cyclists, vulnerable road users etc..
  
  
  The key purpose of the vulnerable road user campaign is to promote the safe sharing of joint road space and to highlight the road safety message that pedestrians and cyclists are equal road users with the same rights as motor vehicle drivers. Over the course of the campaign road policing officers deploy with the intention of;
  
  • Reducing the number of casualties resulting from road collisions and improve road user behaviour,
  • Interacting with vulnerable road users and drivers to raise awareness through education and enforcement,
  • Enforcing the core road traffic offences which contribute to road collision casualties.
  
  
  Initiatives such as Operation Close Pass, a scheme designed to tackle the close passing of cyclists will operate during the campaign. As I have previously indicated the ethos of the campaign is to highlight that all road users require to assume an element of responsibility for their own safety and that of others.
  
  
  I hope that this is of assistance.
  
  
  Yours faithfully.
  
  
  
  
  
  Keith Sutherland
  
  Constable
  
  
  Road Policing Management Support (Policy)
  
  Police Scotland / Poileas Alba
  
  Office 4.3
  
  4th Floor
  
  Barrack Street
  
  Perth
  
  PH1 5SF
  
  
  
  

That's what I got.

 

[Mr Celine]

Next month Polis Scotland launch their anti domestic violence campaign by exhorting Scots women to have their man's tea on the table when he gets in.

 

[Drago]

They're working on a programme to combat knife crime by giving potential victims machetes.

 

[snorri]

I'm happy with the response from the Roads Policing Department, it is at considerable variance to the original notice, but does ring true.

 

[gaijintendo]

Good Morning Mr XXXX

What an interesting Surname. Is it Australian?

 

[xzenonuk]

so cyclists and pedestrians are at the bottom of the list?

 

[snorri]

I notice this campaign is getting flak on Twitter now for its similarity to the widely discredited Nice Way Code campaign.

 

[I like Skol]

It would be nice if they ran a campaign that stated "If you drive like a d!ck, break the laws and put lives at risk we will use the existing laws to prosecute you and we will only stop prosecuting you once you actually can't drive anymore or you stop driving like a d!ck!"

It isn't much to ask is it?