The police in England and Wales made £54 million last year from a speed camera scam. Speed cams are supposed to be all about road safety, but the police are offering an alternative to paying a fine (which goes to the Treasury) and points being added to a motorist’s a licence, which can raise their insurance premium.
Instead, the motorist pays a couple of hundred quid to attend a Mickey Mouse speed awareness course, which shoves £40/customer into the official pocket of the local coppers. Which doesn’t stop their chief constable from pleading poverty and railing about The Cuts and yelling that he/she is going to have to remove all those invisible bobbies from beat duty to spite the government.
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