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Traffic police cuts will lead to more car accidents
Wed, 01 Feb 2012

The government's decision to cut down on traffic police on roads in Britain, as part of an ongoing process of budgetary cuts, will put motorists at risk, claims road safety charity Brake.

According to Brake, cuts to road safety forces have been in force at 11.6 per cent for the last five years, compared to an overall cut of 1.8 per cent to the police force altogether. In Wales, the lack of traffic police is a particularly big issue where 37 per cent of staff in this sector have been axed since 2007.

Julie Townsend, Brake's deputy chief executive, said: "It is crucial the government acts now to put a stop to these dramatic cuts in life-saving roads policing, by making this a national policing priority." She added that car accidents cause economic harm to the country by slowing down trade and increasing traffic congestion .

Norman Baker, the transport minister, recently announced plans to provide councils more autonomy over road works in an endeavour to ease traffic congestion.
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