Yaminator
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Imaging the income the police will make...??????
The solution to people using mobiles while driving, isn't it obvious?
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In the UK it has always been almost impossible to privatise something that the police usually do.
Clamping has been privatised, and it has become a very contentious practice.
I wouldn't want to entrust this to someone whose only interest would be financial. Way too much room for abuse, and not a scrap of discretion would ever be exercised.
The problem with this kind of idea is how to weigh the evidence.
Let's imagine you cut in front of another car in a line of traffic, not intentionally, maybe you even have right of way, but the other driver doesn't like it? Solution - report you for using your phone. Get you a nice fat fine. Of course, that is unacceptable, and it just comes down to your word against his. What if he's a priest? Unemployed? Who wins?
The Police hold a warrant, and although I'm not going to try and say all Policemen are honest, the stakes are higher for all involved if someone decides to play silly buggers.
You chose to dispute the ticket, go to court and tell them you weren't using your phone when you were? Oh, they have video, you've just committed perjury. 5 years prison for that (yes, extreme example, but that's the law and it does sometimes happen).
He issues a ticket out of spite, when you weren't using your phone? Oh, you have 3 witnesses who saw it happen, and have come forward to speak on your behalf. He's out of a job, possibly facing criminal charges.
It's very difficult to put the law into the hands of the public. But it's not that hard to put someone with the law in their hands into where they can be more effective.
Phew. that was almost a rant, wasn't it?
My idea was just to give the police a heads up, after some criteria have been met. More like targeted checks.
Yaminator
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There will be a time in this world where the drivers that use these recording cameras will be able to upload the dangerous footage to a police channel, so that offending driver will then gets their penalties addressed with the proof supplied..?
It's certainly better evidence, but video is still shaky in courts.
All the equipment used for evidential purposes by the police - speed cameras, radar guns, alcohol measuring kit etc, all have to be rigorously calibrated and used in a carefully defined manner. A dashcam as the law is now would be completely inadmissible as evidence of an offence, although they are probably OK for identification of an offender or his vehicle, with other evidence required to secure a conviction.
There's nothing better than getting caught red handed by a copper. Or worse, I suppose, if it's you that got caught!
Ralph
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Doesn't make a dam of difference if they cant police it by camera they are not going to
police it though just why if the phone means so much to people they cant use a simple
hands free beats me, every other car as a driver with a phone stuck to their ear and
for some reason women seen the worst for it.
police it though just why if the phone means so much to people they cant use a simple
hands free beats me, every other car as a driver with a phone stuck to their ear and
for some reason women seen the worst for it.