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by **vonhosen** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:14 pm

Highways Agency Traffic Officer.

They patrol the motorways with some powers to deal with motorists & close lanes etc, but mainly they help stranded motorists & Police at collisions etc.

by **AdamW** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:36 am

HATOs sound a good idea.

Will there be enough of them?

by **Roadcraft** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:22 pm

AdamW wrote:HATOs sound a good idea.

Will there be enough of them?

There'll be plenty...

In my county at the moment...there aren't any...and us traffic cops manage to cope.....

So any more assistance will be nice, but not essential...

by **crr003** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:26 pm

Safety1st wrote:In my county at the moment...there aren't any...and us traffic cops manage to cope.....

So any more assistance will be nice, but not essential...

So.....you don't want any more traffic cops either :wink:

by **Roadcraft** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:06 am

crr003 wrote:
Safety1st wrote:In my county at the moment...there aren't any...and us traffic cops manage to cope.....

So any more assistance will be nice, but not essential...

So.....you don't want any more traffic cops either

Not in the current role, no.

There is too much emphasis placed on Fatal Collision Investigation....that many traffic (Road policing) departments are simply investigation teams...waiting for another fatal....

More emphasis needs to be placed on pro-actively dealing with criminal use of motor vehicles and less reliance on cameras.

At present time, more traffic cops would only mean a bigger fatal investigation team.

by **jibberjabber25** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:52 pm

vonhosen wrote:Highways Agency Traffic Officer.

They patrol the motorways with some powers to deal with motorists & close lanes etc, but mainly they help stranded motorists & Police at collisions etc.

Oh, ok. Thank you vonhosen.

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