Reporting Offences To Traffic Officers

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32210, 31 January 1970, Page 10

Reporting Offences To Traffic Officers

Sir,—l was interested in Mr D. L. Hogan’s assurance to W. Eggleston in today's paper that "if the citizen reports the (traffic law) breach to the traffic authority action will be taken if the complaint can be substantiated.” Last May I reported a bad case of inconsiderate slow driving on the open road to the Ministry of Transport, supplying them with every detail—date, time, place, full description of car, nature of offence, etc., and signed a piece of paper to the effect that I would be prepared to stand as witness. I was told that I would be informed whether or not any prosecution would be brought. When after two months I had heard nothing, I phoned, twice, and both times was passed round from person to person with no satisfaction resulting. We are constantly asked to cooperate with our transport officers; cooperation, sir, works two ways, not one.— Yours, etc., R. L. COLE. January 21, 1970. [Mr D. L. Hogan, district officer, Road Transport Divison, Ministry of Transport, replies: "The decision as to whether a prosecution is taken is made by a chief traffic officer who has full information before him when he make* his decision. Every complaint does not necessarily result In a prosecution.”]