§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police forces have used cardboard cut-outs of police officers and police cars as an aid to crime fighting. [149461]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThis information is not collected centrally by the Home Office. I understand that mock-ups are used on a limited basis in some crime prevention initiatives, but that mock-up vehicles at the roadside have not been judged practical by the Association of Chief Police Officers Road Policing Committee.
The police have a wide range of equipment to ensure speed limits are rigorously enforced. The Vehicles (Crime) Bill, now proceeding through Parliament provides for a new funding mechanism for speed and red-light cameras. Better investment in this area of road safety will ensure even greater compliance with speed limits and will therefore contribute directly to the prevention of deaths on the road.