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Roads Policing Officers

EDM number 1525 in 2006-07, proposed by Bob Russell on 21/05/2007.

That this House acknowledges the dedication of roads policing officers, who work under difficult circumstances to prevent drivers from taking life-threatening risks and who investigate the horrific aftermath of road death and injury; deplores the under-resourcing of essential routine roads policing duties and investigation of law-breaking resulting in death and serious injury; urges the Government to take immediate action by setting roads policing as a sixth National Policing Priority; calls for legislation enabling roads policing officers to perform random and blanket roadside checks on driver impairment and vehicle roadworthiness to provide an effective deterrent to drivers who currently think they can get away with taking unacceptable risks on the road; and demands significant investment in roads policing, including numbers of officers, levels of routine safety checks and available technology, to help prevent the annual carnage of 3,336 deaths and 30,027 serious injuries on UK roads.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell21/05/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
Mike Hancock22/05/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
William McCrea23/05/2007South AntrimDUPSeconded
David Simpson23/05/2007Upper BannDUPSeconded
Rudi Vis23/05/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Mark Williams23/05/2007CeredigionLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn24/05/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Drew24/05/2007StroudLabourSigned
John Leech24/05/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter24/05/2007CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Williams04/06/2007Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming04/06/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Challen05/06/2007Morley and RothwellLabourSigned
Ann Cryer05/06/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Alistair Carmichael06/06/2007Orkney and ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Linda Riordan07/06/2007HalifaxLabourSigned
John Pugh11/06/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins12/06/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson13/06/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Frank Cook14/06/2007Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins25/06/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington28/06/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David Kidney03/07/2007StaffordLabourSigned
Andrew Pelling25/07/2007Croydon CentralConservativeSigned

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