POLICE NOT "HARRYING" MOTORISTS.
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IN asking the Home Secretary the cost
in man hours of the drive which the police are taking against motorists in the Metropolitan area, Brigadier. GeneralSpears suggested that the police might be more usefully engaged. Sir John Simon explained that there was no recent increase in the number of men employed to enforce the traffic laws, but that What was being done was an experiment on the lines of concentrating, in different areas each day, a proportion of the police normally employed on these duties. The whole object was to reduce the number of accidents, and not to harry drivers.
He would not promise to instruct the police to devote themselves to keeping observation upon dangerous and inconsiderate drivers, instead of prosecuting motorists for exceeding the speed limit in roads where, possibly, they might do so without causing any serious danger.
CAB PASSENGERS CRIMINALS?
THE judgmentof the Lord Chief Justice in the Divisional Court on May 12, that, under the existing law, it was a criminal offence for two or more persons to hire a taxicab and agree to share the fare, is having the serious consideration of the Minister.
Two members asked, in the House of Commons on Monday, that the Government should at once bring in legislation to remove what they described as " an anomaly." Mr. HoreBelisha, said Captain Hudson, was in consultation with the Chairman of tlo Traffic CorhmiSsioneis witi a vsieWamending the Act of 1930,