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SA police targeting traffic offences
AAP, 28/06/07





South Australian police, including detectives, have been directed to pull over more motorists in a state-wide crackdown on traffic offences.

Every uniformed police officer has been told to make at least 70 traffic stops a year from July, a rise of 20 stops from last year.

Assistant police commissioner Grant Stevens said every police officer, including detectives and specialised crime investigators, would be expected to pull over at least one more driver every two weeks for road safety offences.

Mr Stevens denied the new benchmarks were aimed to raise revenue for the government, saying the crackdown was a police-driven decision designed to lower the road toll.

"I think it is a brave person that says someone who is the victim of a murder or a serious assault is more important than someone who is seriously injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash," Mr Stevens told ABC radio.

"We got to remember that this is an epidemic that we are dealing with in terms of the number of people who are being seriously injured or killed on our roads.

"We need to be doing some fairly innovative things if we are going to reduce the road toll even further."


Detectives can now pick you up for speeding !!! Don't tell Beattie !!!!

[XCSEDAN]

ummm yeah that sounds fair... NOT
that just means cops are under pressure to pull over more people doesnt it?

[MrFlibbles]

they deny its revenue raising! ha ha as if it isnt...

[Hunter]

Epidemic??? Far out the number of roads deaths is the lowest its been for over 50 years and we have more drivers ever year yet its an epidemic? These pollies obviously don't read the statistics in the reports they're given!

As an interesting tidbit, the national road toll was at its highest in the mid 70s, and has never gotten anywhere near that level since. Epidemic my ****.

[MeLLy]

Hmmmm...
What is the road toll compared to last years?....revenue raising it is...whether they say its not they have a quota & its been revealed before so i dont know why they just dont come out and say it, do they think they will lose votes or something??...They focus on p platers,hoon drivers & speeding because they have to make out like they are doing something so no1 complains.
Do they expect to suddenly drop the road toll if more cops are out their picking on ppl and nabbing ppl for speeding...
I agree with what someone said on a different thread about P platers and the road toll, if they cared so much they should do drive training courses not make the number of years your on your p's go up and make it so much difficult to aquire them and your full license, they are going to find an epidemic of bogan ppl who cannot afford the outrageous prices of licenses and driving lessons turn to driving without one.They should really rethink this one,I'm still peeved that the majority of drivers who vote are on their full licenses & the kids who dont get to vote just deal with whats given out.I still think we should be able to vote on what road laws and tactics they bring in, not just what party we want to run.
The price of my P lesson and test was $60 in 2005 plus 20 for my actual license. My friend is going for hers next week its costing her 220 all up and then she goes to motor reg and pays another 20 or 40 bucks to have her picture taken and put on some plastic.
The system is being stretched far beyond its limits its gaining laughable status.

[kyro_02]

thankfully i'm not living in SA .. instead .. vic.. (wait, maybe i'm far worse off?)

either way, sounds like they're filling your heads in with BS.

[Riksta]

In my ten years of driving I've only ever been pulled over by the police twice, once was a couple of years back I'd let my speed get up a bit on the South Eastern Freeway heading to Mt Gambier an a downhill run, and the other was when I was young and stupid, turning left onto a road in some backstreets, and I let the wheels of my Colt squeal a little, unfortunately coming out the street further down was a cop who stopped, I could tell he was waiting for me so I disappeared down the street he turned out of and was gonna go down a few streets then head home, but he came up behind me and followed me for five minutes, when I put the indicator on for my driveway he flashed me and pulled me up. I got off with a "don't do it again".

I don't really see the big deal about them increasing the amount of people they pull over, as long as you drive safe and obey the rules you should be alright.

[4.9 EF Futura]

I was under the impression that the increased quota was intended to allow more unroadworthy vehicles to be defected. How much revenue this generates, i am unsure.

We've had fair lax policing of the roads for the past decade or so... theyve really ramped it up the last few years.

Ive been getting pulled over prob once per month this year.

[sgt_doofey]

Originally Posted by Riksta

I don't really see the big deal about them increasing the amount of people they pull over, as long as you drive safe and obey the rules you should be alright.

+1

Might take some of the idiots off the road that I constantly see when driving through Elizabeth/Salisbury/Munno Para/Smithfield on Main North Road.

Never been pulled over by the cops, except for when I was young and stupid for doing a stupid thing.

[VSSII]

Originally Posted by sgt_doofey

+1

Might take some of the idiots off the road that I constantly see when driving through Elizabeth/Salisbury/Munno Para/Smithfield on Main North Road.

Never been pulled over by the cops, except for when I was young and stupid for doing a stupid thing.

And there's lots of young motorists on this site. So you're gonna get a lop sided opinion or two! I was young, fooled around, got caught more than once, grew up, moved on. Some find it a little harder.

[sexr6tasy]

Originally Posted by sgt_doofey

+1

Might take some of the idiots off the road that I constantly see when driving through Elizabeth/Salisbury/Munno Para/Smithfield on Main North Road.

Never been pulled over by the cops, except for when I was young and stupid for doing a stupid thing.

Might take some of the fully licensed and old people who cant drive for **** off the road as well.

[ED Classic]

Originally Posted by sexr6tasy

Might take some of the fully licensed and old people who cant drive for **** off the road as well.

Lol exactly...The ones that say Ive never had an accident..and they leave piles of smashed cars behind them wherever they go

[Hunter]

Originally Posted by VSSII

And there's lots of young motorists on this site. So you're gonna get a lop sided opinion or two! I was young, fooled around, got caught more than once, grew up, moved on. Some find it a little harder.

I'm 25 (well soon I will be) and I've never been pulled over in 9 years of driving. And no I don't drive like miss daisy either. I've had several close calls, however. Many times I've um made some noises, possibly from the wheels and all of a sudden there's a cop car around the corner :

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by sexr6tasy

Might take some of the fully licensed and old people who cant drive for **** off the road as well.

Here, here!!!

[KBBossedXR]

How about they get more serious on all those Aboriginals that are continualy stealing our cars and going on high speed chases crashing in to innocent people and sometimes killing them and they walk away from the wreck with a couple of scratches. The cops get on the news ranting and raving yet the Aboriginal is out on Bail for the 5th, 10th, even 20th time i heard once. Now if i was in charge it would be Middle Eastern Ruling you steal a car, you lose a hand, you crash thar car, you loose both hands, you kill a innocent person in that crash, the family has first choice of what they want to do to him/her (cause of death), otherwise we take them out into the gulf and feed them to the Great Whites.
If you think this is over the top go and speak to one of the families that are greiving for there lost member.
Just to clear up a point i have worked and played footy with some great Aboriginals so this is not an attack on them just this specific group we keep on hearing about.

[ON_DUBS]

whoah i can see this thread going up in flames after that one

[blueoval]

This makes me sick

[sexr6tasy]

You will always get degenerates in society no matter what background they are but a justice system that takes and eye for an eye to me would be a bad thing what about accidental murders say you accidentally lose control of your car? or self defense against somebody trying to kill you theres many variables i agree that there should be tougher laws and sentencing tho because its becoming quite a joke what people are getting these days.

[KBBossedXR]

Originally Posted by sexr6tasy

You will always get degenerates in society no matter what background they are but a justice system that takes and eye for an eye to me would be a bad thing what about accidental murders say you accidentally lose control of your car? or self defense against somebody trying to kill you theres many variables i agree that there should be tougher laws and sentencing tho because its becoming quite a joke what people are getting these days.

Sorry bro you cant accidently loose control of your car in a high speed police chase.
Sorry bro there is no such thing as an accidental murder its either self defence or your the killer.
If we had more stricter rules on the criminals there wouldnt be as many still on our streets.
If you new you couldnt plead insanity, and you were going to face extreme punishment then some will think twice and once the word and proof gets out there that criminals only have one hand or are facing Death by Great White things will change thats for sure.

[sexr6tasy]

Originally Posted by stroked67

Sorry bro you cant accidently loose control of your car in a high speed police chase.
Sorry bro there is no such thing as an accidental murder its either self defence or your the killer.
If we had more stricter rules on the criminals there wouldnt be as many still on our streets.
If you new you couldnt plead insanity, and you were going to face extreme punishment then some will think twice and once the word and proof gets out there that criminals only have one hand or are facing Death by Great White things will change thats for sure.

Actually accidental deaths occur all the time so do accidental murders if your driving along at the speed limit and somebody runs out in front of your car and you hit them and kill them i fail to see how your automatically a killer and deserve to die as well there are variables like i said its not as simple as an eye for an eye and i wasn't comparing accidentally losing control of your vehicle to a high speed chase.

[DOC]

I don't see any real stress but i would stop short at calling it an epidemic, did the road toll suddenly triple over the last few years ? I do't think so.

Perhaps they should have said Our past measures were unsuccesful so now were changing tack, and in saying that where does the speed camera saves lives arguement fall into it ? if it's an epidemic then surley then these have not worked and therefore are simply raising money as their effect has no outcome on the road toll.

[Smoke Pursuit]

Why stresss, these guys are too busy chasing real criminals and are above highway patrol matters, they will do their quota but dont expect them to get any harder, they really arent interested and most of the break the road rules neways..

[falzoony]

Well they need to raise money to cover the repair bill for their VE's!

[robbo_yobbo]

Originally Posted by LSTerritoryGhia

Why stresss, these guys are too busy chasing real criminals..........

Haha, thats the funniest thing Ive heard all week

[Tuddy200]

Originally Posted by sexr6tasy

Might take some of the fully licensed and old people who cant drive for **** off the road as well.

Most sensible thing said in this whole topic.

Real Criminals? - You're either a criminal or not in the judges eyes.

[Green X]

All this does is **** the Cop’s off, cause now they have to fill a quota or face a **** reaming back at HQ, rather than actually just going out there and doing there Job.

It’s like when your boss gives you 2hrs to do a 4hr Job, you will go off your tree at anybody over anything, you will go from a nice easy to deal with type of person into a complete ****er, because you have been told to do something that can't be done , but you still have to try and do it.

[Bucknaked]

So muck lawless in Australia. We are just asking fo it. Looking he just tuned on his wipers and it wasn't even raining. Book him Dano..

[shane3]

So far 155 have died on the roads this year to date.

Fatalities (equivalent periods)
2002, 214
2003, 181
2004, 188
2005, 179
2006, 156
5 year average, 184

[AC/DC]

They are asking the cops to get 70 per year....

If I was a traffic cop I would be trying for 70 per day ! ! !

wish i was a traffic cop, , i'd pull EVERYONE over, just to Pi5s them off !

AC/DC

[Skotty]

It doesn't bother me that they will be pulling more people over... I've driven like a d*ick an yeah... I've for 3 months left of a drivers licence suspension and go back on P plates... so you break the rules, DEAL WITH IT! I don't drink alco, I don't do drugs, so they don't bother me... only thing that will bother me will be the higher chance of getting defected and still then when I get my car I won't be able to lower it too much so all in all drive sensible don't go over the top lowering cars and mods and ya got nothing to worry about