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Road Policing Units
Road Policing is a key part of the Essex Police Mobile Support Division. Road Policing investigates all the road crashes that result in death in the county, plus most other collisions.
Road Policing officers deal with many perceived minor offences such as excess speed, failure to wear seat belts, tachograph offences. Then on a rising scale there is careless driving, driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, aggravated vehicle taking, dangerous driving and death by dangerous driving.
Not wearing a seatbelt is perceived as a ‘minor’ misdemeanour but the Road Policing officers too often have to deal with the aftermath of people who have died, or been seriously injured, through the failure to wear one. They have been ejected out of a sunroof or window as the car overturned – a minor misdemeanour or was it life saving advice.
The same officers also deal with a driver of a car who, because of the excess speed, but ‘at no fault of their own’, hits a pedestrian who walks into their path. The driver will never know whether the person would have survived or the collision could have been avoided if the vehicle had been travelling within the speed limit.
Road Traffic Police video
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