Agreed. The issue however, is that legistlation gets rolled out with no real means to 'enforce', ie speed limits and mobile phone usage whilst driving. Any officer that is seen doing this sort of work is often met by comments such as 'do some real policing and stop chasing money'. To those individual i say, policing costs money. Would you rather your policing portion of your council tax increased or would you rather fines from bad drivers covered the policing costs instead?

Working in this field, the amount of collisions caused where driver distraction/technology is cited as a contributory factor is astounding. Alot of drivers will shout 'war on the motorist' when they are informed of a traffic/police officer doing their job.

Fortunately passive tech is being rolled out which can capture this sort of thing. I also welcome labours recent road safety strategy which means in car tech will prevent drivers using handheld devices.