Thread by @markandcharlie

#Evidencebasedpolicing is all about addressing the #greatestthreatofharm, let's look at cycling offences 👍The place where evidentially we know cyclists pose a constant threat of harm is at pedestrian crossings & so the allocation of resources to enforce contraventions at such a

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vulnerable location is fully justified. A plain clothed spotter with stopping officers further down the road is the best way to do it 👍 As the amount of people using #ActiveTravel rises this will become an emerging trend and so will need attention. 👍 Run it in the same way we

ran our #ASL operations where those who inconvienced or endangered were ticketed, those that haven't are warned. Then get the awareness right through the media push & you start to get behaviour change 👍. With increasing numbers of people cycling & walking due to #Modalshift

this sort of offending will become an emerging trend, so will justify a resource allocation in the ratio to harm done in comparison to that of vehicular offending. So if 1 % of your #KSIs is due to cyclists offending at pedestrian crossings you use 1% of your time enforcing.

Trouble is this would lead to no enforcement probably outside of the capital as there are so few actual collisions, so as it's an emerging trend that can cause distress as well as actual harm a token gesture of an operation a month together with the right media should be enough

to curb the emerging trend 👍 Other forms of cycling offending rarely carry a sufficient threat of harm, apart from reckless pavement cycling which should be dealt with when encountered in accordance with the home office guidelines.
news.npcc.police.uk/releases/suppo…

A word of warning for those though who shout loudly for more than the current token gesture of enforcement against cyclists. In a demand driven society we as officers have to justify everything we do based upon public interest. If we did it proportionally, for every one day we

spend doing cycle enforcement we would have to spend the next 5 years enforcing against drivers, and that's just based on blameworthy fatals. So although I have identified a potential threat of harm as we go forward at a vulnerable location, in comparison to the impact of other

#Roaddanger a monthly operation is massive "overkill" and would be token PR gesture rather than enforcement that reduces overall demand on society. And a quick calculation shows that if I were to spend the same amount of time enforcing against drivers as I have cyclists

proportionally in the public interest, given the time we spent on #OpVelolumiere I would have to live until I was 208 to fit in all the necessary driver enforcement.
I'm currently in the middle of a research project into cyclists vs pedestrian collisions which I will update

on next week together with the mounting evidential base that suggests cyclists should be able to turn left on a red traffic light signal.

Safe Journeys all 👍