People’s, I don’t know how to link it , but , operation close pass this morning, police scotland Facebook page. Comments from some people are frankly incredible !!!
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Operation close pass
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Posted 5 years ago #
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@splitshift
we just nee tae get a wee team the gither
sort this mess oot, ken
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I know I hail
From the speckled Kirk area, but I am not familiar with this , “ ken” that you speak off !
But , aye, in aboot em !Posted 5 years ago # -
Translation for Glesca folk: ye knooooooooow.
Posted 5 years ago # -
Yesterday was Mother Language Day. Scots>Doric>Tounser.
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Previous thread: http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17633&page=20
Posted 5 years ago # -
nice tweed cap Neddie
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Cheers bud.
Posted 5 years ago # -
I can't for the life of me find anything about Operation Close Pass on Police Scotland's Facebook page. Can someone post the URL, please?
Posted 5 years ago # -
It's on Forth Valley's divisional page rather than PS page as far as I can see:
https://www.facebook.com/ForthValleyPoliceDivision/photos/a.198337750204151/2119122614792312Posted 5 years ago # -
Again sorry I can’t do all that clever link stuff !!
Posted 5 years ago # -
Yes u can.
Copy and paste.
Posted 5 years ago # -
https://twitter.com/polscotrpu/status/1098633688240345094
Police Scotland saying you can specifically request traffic officers deal with reports of close passes.
I asked Police Scotland a while ago if this was possible and was told "All Police Officers are able to report cases of dangerous driving. There is no need to report directly to a specialist Road Policing Officer."
Good to see that changing.
Posted 5 years ago # -
@ chdot. Serious Luddite here! I predominately use my phone, if I just press onto a post on Facebook then it just goes all hazy , not as I expect , the copy or paste etc! Is there a specific part I should hover over? However, are the blue text part sometimes, but not always on Facebook posts the bit I should try ?
Posted 5 years ago # -
At least the comments are good (even if some breach rule 2)
https://twitter.com/wmerciapolice/status/1187001924089982976
Posted 5 years ago # -
This is an open admission the police believe the roads to be unsafe to cycle on, but won't do anything about it.
https://twitter.com/SuptBrighton/status/1305471453811310592?s=20
Posted 4 years ago # -
Edit moves to other thread
Posted 4 years ago # -
To be fair they're not saying they can do nothing. They're saying they can't ask their officers to ride on the road.
They could set up observation posts with cameras on known blackspots without putting their officers in harm's way.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Would it be considered acceptable to say they can't ask their officers can't go into Broomhouse to enforce the law for health and safety reasons?
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Posted 3 years ago #
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That super loves her motors. She is not a fan of op close pass. But was cambridge where the PC a scanned his carrots instead of the Kirispy kreme. Saving himself ten quid and getting himself his jotters. He can still appeal, say the sun was in his eyes or wrong type of scanners or carrots are identical to KK donuts.
This is another one for Prof Reicher. Self scan is open to this abuse but almost all people just swipe and pay.
Posted 3 years ago # -
"4 document offences were detected" Does this mean things like driving without insurance, MoT expired, no VED and driving while disqualified? If so then that seems like a worryingly high number.
Posted 3 years ago # -
@ejstubbs
Sounds about right.
Using Reicher estimates, 20 per cent of drivers are doing so without MOT or insurance or both,
Posted 3 years ago # -
It's not clear whether those four were a subset of the seven pulled over for close passes. Police could easily have been checking the number plates of other drivers at the same time.
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Posted 3 years ago #
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Not in abeyance! Who knew?
'Police Scotland regularly carry out operations targeting drivers who overtake cyclists too closely, with the latest happening just yesterday in the Leith area of Edinburgh and resulting in six motorists being stopped and spoken to after making close passes on a plain clothes police officer on a bike and given advice on how to overtake safely in future.'
https://road.cc/content/news/three-five-scots-want-police-video-reporting-system-285749
Posted 3 years ago # -
“
Drivers passing dangerously close to cyclists nearly halved in East Lothian pilot project
The number of drivers passing dangerously close to cyclists has been almost halved in a trial of new road signs in East Lothian, The Scotsman has learned.
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Posted 2 years ago # -
The number fell from 434 of 856 overtakes to 56 of 196.
Proposal for future study: The effect of prosecuting those 56 drivers.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Closest fit I can find in the existing threads for this:
https://twitter.com/UKCopHumour/status/1509137803241836547/photo/1
It appears to be genuine. The Twitter user "Roads Policing Unit (RPU) - Surrey Police - UK" aka @surreyroadcops certainly is.
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