Stopping plan for wardens
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• Traffic wardens may soon have the power to stop trucks for emissions testing. The House of Lords is considering the necessary amendment to the Environment Bill, just two weeks after a Home Office report on police core activities recommended a bigger role for wardens (CM 29 June-5 July), Local authorities can check emissions, but only the police are empowered to stop vehicles.
Lord Jenkin of Roding, who is tabling the amendment, says he has the backing of the Association of London GoVernment, which represents all 33 London boroughs, and is confident the amendment will be passed. But he stresses it only involves wardens employed by the police; not those working for local authorities, "We don't think the police have the manpower to stop vehicles for emissions testing and that's why we want to give traffic wardens stopping powers," he says.
However Richard Turner, executive director of transport policy at the Freight Transport Association, warns: "If people are found to he operating outside the law they get rather upset and we find that a policeman is a great leveller."