Seminars for fun

[pritch]

It's pretty hard to every cop to know every law in detail. Those who specalise into road policing often become specialists.

Those who just rotate through road policing as part of career progression often think they know it all, but actually don't.

A former TO of my acquaintance was somewhat unhappy after the merger of traffic with police. He said prior to the merger he took his car home at night so he was working until he pulled into his drive. In the morning he was working from the time he pulled out of the drive. During the day he'd write his reports as events took place. After the merger there was no taking his car home so there was about an hour lost with briefings and admin etc each morning. The sergeant wouldn't accept handwritten reports so at the end of the day he had to go back to the office early and type up his record of the day. More time lost.

He also mentioned that the TOs knew the law and dealt with it on the spot. Non specialists need to seek the guidance of senior staff.

[BMWST?]

I’ve been hit from behind three times while operating truck, motorbike and car. Each time following distance wasn’t an issue, it was failing to pay attention. In fact I wish they were actually tailgating me as the speed differential on impact would have been less.
Yes a lot of what you mention is caused by no stopping distance but it’s wasted if the driver is paying attention to start with

Yes to this.
Was on the Wellington Motorway in the Aotea Quay part where it is 4 lanes wide heading north (just after the on ramp by the ferries).There may have been road works on the left . Something on the left was causing problems,I could see brake lights going on way ahead. The two cars to my left were blissfully unaware. I had already started to brake and move into the far right lane to give the people to my left room to come right. Everything was coming to a halt. AFTER i was virtually stopped I was hit hard from behind even though I had come to a stop quite slowly .The two cars to my left had tail ended the cars ahead too. I could see it all happening but these three were oblivious to what was happening. I was in my old BMW 535 car,which had a broken tail light and a slightly distorted rear end.(the boot still opened and closed) The Mitsubishi was a steaming wreck .

[rastuscat]

A former TO of my acquaintance was somewhat unhappy after the merger of traffic with police. He said prior to the merger he took his car home at night so he was working until he pulled into his drive. In the morning he was working from the time he pulled out of the drive. During the day he'd write his reports as events took place. After the merger there was no taking his car home so there was about an hour lost with briefings and admin etc each morning. The sergeant wouldn't accept handwritten reports so at the end of the day he had to go back to the office early and type up his record of the day. More time lost.

He also mentioned that the TOs knew the law and dealt with it on the spot. Non specialists need to seek the guidance of senior staff.

This.

And the fact that we used to look after our vehicles far better, we took pride on them. Some still do, but pooled vehicles rarely get looked after as well as assigned vehicles.

Ironically I left as I felt that they had lost their way with road safety. It took me a long time to come to that realisation, but it was reinforced when I left by the crest I was presented with distinguishing between road policing and road safety.