Lawless Derbyshire: October 2011

Thursday Morning's commute - in the dark now with autumn coming on - was a little more exciting than normal. Again, a near miss that wasn't our problem but nicely captured anyway.

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I am a regular commuter between Melbourne and Derby. I am routinely seeing drivers ignoring the 40mph limit, tailgating both drivers and cyclists at less than 3 metres at 30mph+ and generally behaving like mad people with a death wish. I've tried logging such problems on the police 0345 number but if nobody is injured they don't even want to write anything down. I've tried the Safer Neighbourhood fold who 'prioritised' road policing but I've seen no effect. I've spoken to my local officers who seem to think enforcing traffic law is an ammusing concept. I've tried taking the problems to the Derbyshire Head of Roads Policing but he says he only has funding for 6 cars covering the whole of Derbyshire and has no funding for routine law enforcement and can only afford to police areas where there is a high history of deaths or injuries.
By my calculations, just in Melbourne, we're paying £0.5 million pounds from our council tax for our the policing that we do not receive. So, Chief Constable, what are you spending all of our policing funding on?

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