“Poor Claire seems to be the only one sticking up for the Police. I have great sympathy for them as they're between a rock and a hard place. They are not helped by inflamatory headlines like 'Police Declare War on Speeding Motorists' that started this chain of comments. Banal statements from LRSP like 'most fatalities involve speed' is blatantly obvious but is designed to load the dice by implying that speed of itself is dangerous, rather than the inappropriateness of speed in given situations. Until there is openness about the facts then ill feeling will be generated and, unfortunately the Police, rather than vested interest groups, will take the brunt of the criticism.
Surely what we want is a balance of policing where the 'detection rate' for dangerous driving (inappropriate use of speed in given situations) is on a par with other crimes?”

“I will bear that in mind the next time I am burgled and call the fire brigade or the county council, I might get a better response.”

“As previously written, traffic cops deal primarily with traffic and not burglaries.
If there's no evidence then the crime can't be solved - they can't invent evidence.
Don't know why your blaming it all on the police either - Lincolnshire Road safety partnership also involves the county council, Lincs fire and rescue, NHS Partnership, Highways agency and Probation service so maybe it's not all down to 'Mr Crompton'.”

“Many people I know have completely lost confidence in the police and simply would not report a crime as they know nothing will come of it.
I had my home burgled recently and the theives made it upstairs and were disturbed by my young daughter who was asleep, as were the rest of the family.
The police took hours to turn up and when they did nothing came of it, they didn't seem at all interested, just gave us crime number and told us to get in touch with our insurers.
This preoccupation with speeding when many peoples quality of life is bedevilled with anti social behaviour and harassment just seems to be akin to Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
Finally this situation only leads to the police alienating many in society and the loss of goodwill that goes with it.
The police should think again Cameras are not the answer.”

“If we all stopped speeding then I guess the traffic cops would have less to do but we would still have to pay them the same wage, seeing as that would be a waste of money they would eventually be made redundant! Moral, speeder are keeping cops in a job, gotta be good for the economy!!!”

“This should raise a large amount of revenue and pay for a great Christmas ball for the local police force this year!! Time they used the time they have for sorting out the theft, anti social behaviour, Violence and other serious crimes that are going on in Lincoln.”

“As i say in my previous post, all the police are doing is taking the softer option. It's much more safer and easier to sit hidden somewhere with a flask of tea and a camera catching speeding motorists rather than say taking on real criminals, oh and lets face it much more profitable too.
Again i ask Mr Crompton why are you putting so much emphasis on catching motorsits when are streets are full of crime?.”

“haven.t the police got anything better to do than catch the ones who go over the limit when speeding doesn.t look like and what about the one .s using mobiles when driving they don.t catch them do they . and what about the MAD MAD drivers and what about the tax on cars the ones who get away with it doe.s the system catch them NO they Get away before they catch them there not interested in catching them. when u want a copper u can never find one and that is what i pay my taxes for how stupid”

“If they are catching more people and getting more revenue then that can be invested in more police for other crimes.
As lots have people have said, if you keep below the speed limit then this really doesn't have to effect you. There are enough police to catch theives. If you have a thousand police working on one case it is the same as one if there is not enough evidence to pin it on someone. A single break in I am afraid will often go unpunished because it requires a few more to throw up enough rope to catch the villian with.”

“re-my last post, we should expect that people may legitimately wish to do 60 (not so)”