ROADS POLICING


ROADS POLICING – SO MUCH MORE THAN CARS AND CRASHES


Olivia Watkinson speaks to the Federation’s National Roads Policing Lead, Gemma Fox, to find out more about the Roads Policing User Group she leads and its current priorities.


“The Roads Policing forum isn’t just about cars and crashes,” according to Gemma Fox. “It spans a huge amount of subject areas and requires a committee of dedicated and passionate officers who use their experience to promote this vital area of policing.” That group – the Roads Policing Forum –


meets regularly to discuss and find solutions to a myriad of issues that impact road users and officers. Topics include pursuits, driver training (not just for traffic officers, but any officer driving), fleet, operations and intel, collision/ forensic investigation, motorcycles… the list goes on.


Gemma said: “That’s a huge list of things


to work on, and many of them overlap with other areas and other committees, so as a member it’s likely that even if you don’t know it, the Roads Policing Forum has had some input on your area. “The Forum collects information and data from our representatives of different forces and examines it for trends – is there something going unaddressed? We can then take these emerging issues from an on-the-ground problem to something being discussed on a national level.”


Recently the Forum has fed into major reports from the Department for Transport,


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