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AFFIC eviiiiiners should better able to detect ofJers and enforce the law er March, their trade on, the Society of Civil . Public Servants, says.
'his is a' result of Departit of Transport efforts to rease traffic examiners' traand subsistence allowes, after they were slashed around 22 per cent last 61.
['lien, the SCI'S raised ions fears over the level of Orceinent they could sus) (CM. September 7). But
after speaking to C.\2, the DTp promised to let the SCPS see the DTp's desired allocations for 1986/87 — providing that there were no more press statements.
A December meeting between the DTp and SCI'S has left the union's assistant secretary Bill Diamond feeling more hopeful about the level of enforcement for the financial year beginning in April. We are now satisfied that the DIp has done its best to see that examiners will be fully resourced."
But now the fight is on for the DTp to persuade the Treasury to endorse the increased travel and subsistence allowances. It was Treasury pressure which led to the cuts in allowances in April.
If the Treasury defeats the DTp, the SCI'S will talk again to the press, it has warned. With public attention focused on lorry and coach accidents, it would be a political embarrassment to the Government to he seen to be under-resourcing the traffic examiners, it says.