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Enforcement
A Safe Streets for London Priority
Siwan Hayward
Deputy Director, Enforcement and On-Street Operations
Transport for London
TfL’s 6 Road Safety Commitments
1.To lead the way in achieving a 40 per cent reduction in the number of people killed or
seriously injured on the Capital’s roads by 2020 – with a longer term ambition of freeing
London’s roads from death and serious injury
2. To prioritise safety of the most vulnerable groups – pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists
– which make up 80 per cent of serious and fatal collisions
3. To provide substantial funding for road safety, invested in the most effective and
innovative schemes
4. To increase efforts with the police, boroughs and enforcement agencies in tackling illegal,
dangerous and careless road user behaviour that puts people at risk
5. To campaign for changes in national and EU law to make roads, vehicles and drivers
safer
6. To work in partnership with boroughs and London’s road safety stakeholders to spread
best practice and share data and information
Partnership working on London’s roads
Partners include
• Metropolitan Police Service – Roads and Transport Policing Command
• City of London Police
• Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
• Others, including London Fire Brigade,
• HSE, Environment Agency and DWP
Activities include
• Safer Lorry Scheme
• Roadsafe London
• Community Roadwatch
• Operation Kansas
• Operation Safeway
• Road Fatality Review Group
Benefits include
• More effective roadside enforcement
• Intelligence support
• Information sharing
Our Right Direction commitments
Mayor’s strategy for improving transport safety,
security and reliability in London [2014-17]
contains two objectives which are focused on
road safety
Improve cyclist safety and security
• Run a trial using cameras to enforce regulations
for road users at Advanced Stop Lines (ASLs)
• Continue to deliver Exchanging Places initiatives
in hotspot locations for collisions and at events
with opportunities to engage with cyclists
• Lobby for changes to traffic legislation so driving
over the first stop line of an ASL is decriminalised
enabling highway authorities to enforce it as a civil
offence
Our Right Direction commitments contd.
Reduce collisions caused by criminal, illegal
and anti-social road user behaviour
• Trial community roadwatch scheme
• Upgrade safety cameras from wet film to digital
• Encourage reporting of dangerous, careless and
illegal driving through RoadSafe London website
• Use new powers to issue endorsable Fixed
Penalty Notices for careless driving, especially
targeting the most risky locations
• Exploit use of new technology to detect and
prevent drug-driving offences
• Make use of Mobile Enforcement Vans to improve
road safety at level crossings
• Understand level of casualty reduction that can be
achieved through specific technologies and
interventions such as alcohol interlocks, Bikesafe
and driver awareness courses
Roads and Transport Policing Command
• Funded by TfL - around £90m
• Live from 1 December 2014
• Single police command dedicated to safe,
secure and reliable journeys across the
surface and road transport network
• Over 2300 officers with road safety as
priority
• Specialist teams include
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the Cycle Safety Team
Serious Collision Investigation Unit
Industrial HGV Task Force
Commercial Vehicle Unit
Motorcycle Safety Team
Industrial HGV Taskforce
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Launched 1 October 2013, funded by TfL and DfT
Made up of officers from MPS, DVSA, and CoLP
Target the most non-complaint and dangerous vehicles
Since launch:
o over 360 high visibility roadside operations totaling over 18,000
man hours of enforcement activity
o 3000 vehicles stopped
o over 1500 roadworthiness prohibitions
o over 210 drivers hours prohibitions.
o 880 Fixed Penalty Notices for driver and vehicle related
infringements
o seized 41 of the most dangerous vehicles
o over 60 follow up investigations referred to Traffic Commissioner,
resulting in a large number of public inquiry submissions
o 25 prosecutions fast tracked through the criminal justice system
Questions
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