Important consultation -TIME SHORT - roads policing

[den1s_murphy]

There's an opportunity here if we can get enough responses to get the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cycling's recommendations implemented into Her Majesty's Inspectorat of Police's monitoring and reporting.

Copied from our brum fb group :

"..If you don't ask....you don't get.."
Consultation by Her Majesty's inspectorate of Police :

To those interested in why UK streets are so dangerous to peds/cyclists, one factor is that the Police forces' Inspectorate basically ignores this in performance reporting on policing (ref 2).

You have a chance (by Monday 19th. 17:00 !!) to request dangerous driving, esp in urban contexts/vulnerable users, is put front and centre on HMI's reporting alongside other dangerous criminality.

I suggest ignoring their convoluted questions/themes approach and just pitching your requirement in an email as per Parliament's APPCG recommendation:
"...: to include roads policing in the ‘Police Effectiveness, Efficiency, Legitimacy programme’ used by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary to evaluate police force. This might help focus attention on roads policing amongst Police and Crime Commissioners and senior officers. In addition, Police and Crime Commissioners and police forces should include perception of the dangers of illegal road use as part of way they measure local satisfaction with their services.....”

The local satisfaction measure is important as Road Safety always actually emerges as a top priority in the WMPCC's own surveys and WMP's own historic surveys ( ...but you'd prob'ly never guess..)

Link to consultation http://bit.ly/2DCpQ9a

Some background stuff...
1) how bad is UK compared to Europe on vulnerable users safety? - http://www.pacts.org.uk/2016/09/safest- ... the-world/
2) "Cyclists and road Justice" (All Party Parliamentry cycling group) https://allpartycycling.files.wordpress.com/…/appcg-justice…
HMICFRS’ 2018/19 policing inspection programme and framework: for consultation
This consultation asks for your views on HMICFRS’ proposed inspection programme for 2018/19.
justiceinspectorates.gov.uk

[thirdcrank]

Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting on an important matter.

Having plugged away at the theme of policing priorities for much of my time on here, I'm with you 110% but people seem unconvinced. The Inspectorate of Constabulary is a small but important part of this. By and large, they count what can be counted and all that's being counted now is KSI casualties, by which standard things are hunky-dory, but that's more from a combination of frightening vulnerable users off the roads, protecting the occupants of cars and the improvements in medical techniques. "Police chase" type telly programmes are made to convince the easily-convinced that traffic policing is still effective.

In the meantime, the enforcement effort is increasingly directed elsewhere, largely because those interested have lobbied tirelessly for several decades.

[den1s_murphy]

Thanks thirdcrank, I really believe this is worth a try as we have ever greater number of cyclists fed up with the status quo ( which is is increasingly indefensible - given huge disparity in safety between different modes and UK vs NL/D/DK. So those in authority must be getting into squirm mode
Additionally the issue of air quality in urban areas is affecting the wealthy, vocal middle classes - so issues about mode-shift and road safety aren't going to disappear any time soon.
There's a tide....

[PRL]

Done as advised. What have we to loose ? With not many people bothering to respond we have a chance to have an impact.