Police chiefs say roads policing needs more attention

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Police chiefs say roads policing needs more attention

NPCC roads policing lead says countries such as Norway have zero child road death rate.

John Apter is a former traffic officer

Date - 28th January 2020
By - Chloe Livadeas

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Police chiefs have called the level of fatalities on UK roads unacceptable and say roads policing has been the ‘’poor relation’’ for too long. There were 1,784 road deaths in 2018, equivalent to five deaths a day. Speaking...

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