Well according to new figures published by the Ministry of Justice, four in ten motorists are paying fines each year as a result of being caught by a parking warden, a speed camera or the police.
The collective fines are worth up to £800 million. Goodness me! No bad pay for a years work.
Cameras and parking wardens caught 9.8 million drivers in 2006, the equivalent of one in every three licensed vehicles. The majority of offences, 7.8m, were local by traffic wardens. Don’t we just love them? Police also handed out three million fixed penalty notices, the bulk for speeding with two-thirds of drivers caught on camera.
The report reveals that motoring offences were up in 2006 compared with 2005. However, prosecution of dangerous drivers has fallen to the lowest level for more than a decade. The figures suggest that the chance of being caught committing a serious offence, such as drink-driving or driving without insurance, is lower than at any time since the early 1990s.
AA president Edmund King said the decline in detections of serious motoring offences should not be seen as a sign that drivers were becoming more law-abiding. He said: "It just shows that they are not being caught because there are fewer traffic police on patrol."
So why cannot the police st up a specific traffic department to catch these dangerous drivers, funded by the £800 million fines the Government earned from motorists?
Job Done
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