My day with the Motorway police. Conclusion. We need more.

I would like to thanks Chadderton Traffic Unit for giving me this opportunity to spend a shift with them, I think on the whole I kept quiet and behaved myself. Simon my driver, worked not stop from 7am until 2.30pm with a few minutes break in a police waiting area for a car which was thought to be coming our way.  After leaving me at 2.30 he was faced with a couple of hours of paper work. The motorway police have always been ‘just there’ never at the right time. But after my shift with Simon who also kept me informed of what and why, while managing to listen to and respond to constant messages on the radio I was very impressed in his professionalism. Now I know we all complain there are not enough police about, I agree, we were constantly dashing from one incident to another, some serious some not. This isn’t any reflection on Simon he can only be watching one way, but I saw people on phones and as he explained had there been two coppers in the car the other one who saw the offence could book them. Now we’re back to the same old - same old, we don’t have enough police and after seeing the way people drive with a police presences I’m sure accidents would be a lot lower because people would drive slower, pay more attentions to what is happening around them instead of being distracted by their precious mobiles and whatever else it is that distracts them.