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POWERS OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE

1st December 1933
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How the Licensing Arrange.. ments Work in London A =LOUGH the public carriage department of the Metropolitan Police Is no longer responsible for the licensing or the mechanical fitness of public service vehicles, or for lost property found in them, the department is now the licensing authority for all public service vehicle drivers and conductors in the Metropolitan Traffic Area, whether they reside inside or outside the Metropolitan Police District.

The Metropolitan Police have revised the terms of coach and bus drivers' licences and now issue three types : (1) an open licence entitling the holder to drive all types of vehicle; (2) a licence to drive all classes of public service vehicle, except double-deckers ; and (3) a licence confined to vehicles with 20 seats and fewer. Scotland Yard has, incidentally, agreed to an arrangement with a company which usually holds its employees' licences to accept applications for renewals through that concern.

The police have, however, much greater powers of controlling the-conditions of public-service-vehicle operation than those indicated by the one sphere in which they still have authority to issue licences. In the case of all road service licences, the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner must consult with the Commissioner of Police before determining the conditions to be attached in respect of routes, stopping places or terminal points within the Metropolitan Police District. Furthermore, the police are to be consulted before the Traffic Commissioner approves any route which London Transport may operate without a licence.

The Metropolitan Commissioner has power to attach to his approval of a route conditions for securing that only vehicles of a particular class may be used on a certain route, that passengers shall not be taken up or set down except at specified points and that vehicles shall turn by specified streets.

The last-named is a power which the police did not hold under the London Traffic Act, 1924. It is further laid down that the Minister, after consultation with the police, may give directions to the Traffic Commissioner requiring him to attach to his approval of any route conditions relating to the construction of vehicles, either in the case of all routes, or of particular routes, any part of which lies in the Metropolitan Police District.

As a transitory measure, all routes scheduled under the London Traffic Act have been adopted as approved routes, and it is understood that the Minister of Transport has under consideration directions to the Traffic Commissioner regarding 'the constructional requirements of vehicles.

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