Here's the third of a number of threads of the presentation I made to the teams who run the Operation Snap road crime reporting systems in English and Welsh police forces.
This tweet is about consistency of decision-making.
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This tweet is about consistency of decision-making.
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This was the issue campaigners became most animated about.
Cycling campaigners want national standards of decision-making. It is the single thing most often complained about.
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Cycling campaigners want national standards of decision-making. It is the single thing most often complained about.
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Written, transparent criteria for police action are probably the biggest single change cycling campaigners want to see.
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Just by way of example, here’s two stills from cycle cams. One is taken from a police force video encouraging submissions to their OpSnap portal, and the other was rejected (by the same force) because it wasn’t seen as a close pass. Which is which?
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Campaigners shared feedback with me from forces justifying not taking action in situations like this one. Too often it highlighted the behaviour of the cyclist reporter as a justification for not proceeding against a driver. The cyclist was riding to national standards.
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There are transparent, written statements of good legal cycling behaviour.
This raises concerns about the training officers receive, and the lack of a national standards for police decision-making for close-passes.
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This raises concerns about the training officers receive, and the lack of a national standards for police decision-making for close-passes.
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I'll tweet the other sections of my presentation today and tomorrow. 7/7
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