MANPOWER shortages a leaving Britain's police unal to enforce all
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the laws of t land, Leicestershire Chi Constable Alan Goods4 admitted last week.
Speaking at the annu Institute of Tref Administration conference I said, "We are not enforcing: the laws — we just cannot it."
The hgv driver has a mu( more lethal weapon in h hands than the car driver • and this does not mean tit there is room f( complacency, he warned.
And on foreign drivers wh committed offences in Britai Mr Goodson admitted tha there was little the polic could do to prosecute th guilty driver.
"There is an EEC law tha could be used whereby a drive could be prosecuted in his owl country for offence committed abroad — but si far only two countries hay. adopted it," said Mr Goodson, "It is difficult enough to ge criminals locked up, let aloft drivers and it is difficult to ge international regulation made — the headway so far i minimal," he said.