- "Speed Cameras" will only be used in high accident areas, and accident statistics must be made available for the previous 5 years, and new statistics released each year after.
- Traffic Patrols should only give speeding tickets where there is a clear and real danger. Police should not lurk around waiting for speedsters instead they should only ticket when they come across someone breaking the law.
- All quota and incentives for Traffic Police to give speeding tickets and tickets for failing to make a full stop at stop signs must be made public.
- Traffic policing should focus on
• Getting drunk and otherwise stupefied people off the roads.
• Getting rude and bullying behaviour on our roads such as motorists who pull off the motorway from the right hand lane barging into a waiting queue at the last minute, those who can not merge onto motorways correctly and those that driving to slowly for conditions yet fail to let others past.
- Unless the traffic section is moved to a different body than the NZ Police, burglaries, car theft, stalkers, intruders, assaults, muggings and any other violent behaviour take priority over ticketing speeding motorists, unless of course the speeding motorist is considered violent behaviour that which minimizes risk to others or property
- The key here is ticketing speeding motorists, speed kills and makes a bigger mess. Therefore it is appropriate and right from a minimisation and avoidance of 'mess' to focus on speeding drivers. There is a basic principle that speeding kills (supported by evidence research and data from work done in Bay of Plenty and in the Waikato) and that it is right that policing should focus, amongst many other areas, on speeding
Comment
People who break the traffic law should be prepared to face the consquences. By driving fast you put other road users - both other car users and not motorised such as pedestrians and cyclists - at danger. It is immature to harp on about ticket quotas. If you didn't speed you wouldn't have to pay. I fully support police spending time enforcing traffic rules. Moreover, I fully support having dedicated police units policing traffic rules. However I do not support quotas and think that the police should be respected to use their discretion when it comes to issuing tickets
