1. Enforcement A Safe Streets for London Priority
Siwan Hayward Deputy Director, Enforcement and On-Street Operations
Transport for London

2. TfL’s 6 Road Safety Commitments
1.To lead the way in achieving a 40 per cent reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured on the Capital’s roads by 2020 – with a longer term ambition of freeing London’s roads from death and serious injury
2. To prioritise safety of the most vulnerable groups – pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists – which make up 80 per cent of serious and fatal collisions
3. To provide substantial funding for road safety, invested in the most effective and innovative schemes
4. To increase efforts with the police, boroughs and enforcement agencies in tackling illegal, dangerous and careless road user behaviour that puts people at risk
5. To campaign for changes in national and EU law to make roads, vehicles and drivers safer
6. To work in partnership with boroughs and London’s road safety stakeholders to spread best practice and share data and information

3. Partnership working on London’s roads
Partners include
Metropolitan Police Service – Roads and Transport Policing Command
City of London Police
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
Others, including London Fire Brigade,
HSE, Environment Agency and DWP
Activities include
Safer Lorry Scheme
Roadsafe London
Community Roadwatch
Operation Kansas
Operation Safeway
Road Fatality Review Group
Benefits include
More effective roadside enforcement
Intelligence support
Information sharing

4. Our Right Direction commitments
Mayor’s strategy for improving transport safety, security and reliability in London [ ] contains two objectives which are focused on road safety
Improve cyclist safety and security
Run a trial using cameras to enforce regulations for road users at Advanced Stop Lines (ASLs)
Continue to deliver Exchanging Places initiatives in hotspot locations for collisions and at events with opportunities to engage with cyclists
Lobby for changes to traffic legislation so driving over the first stop line of an ASL is decriminalised enabling highway authorities to enforce it as a civil offence
Improve transparency of enforcement activities. In particular to produce an annual report which will detail FPN stats and other activities

5. Our Right Direction commitments contd.
Reduce collisions caused by criminal, illegal and anti-social road user behaviour
Trial community roadwatch scheme
Upgrade safety cameras from wet film to digital
Encourage reporting of dangerous, careless and illegal driving through RoadSafe London website
Use new powers to issue endorsable Fixed Penalty Notices for careless driving, especially targeting the most risky locations
Exploit use of new technology to detect and prevent drug-driving offences
Make use of Mobile Enforcement Vans to improve road safety at level crossings
Understand level of casualty reduction that can be achieved through specific technologies and interventions such as alcohol interlocks, Bikesafe and driver awareness courses
Improve transparency of enforcement activities. In particular to produce an annual report which will detail FPN stats and other activities

6. Roads and Transport Policing Command
Funded by TfL - around £90m
Live from 1 December 2014
Single police command dedicated to safe, secure and reliable journeys across the surface and road transport network
Over 2300 officers with road safety as priority
Specialist teams include
the Cycle Safety Team
Serious Collision Investigation Unit
Industrial HGV Task Force
Commercial Vehicle Unit
Motorcycle Safety Team

7. Industrial HGV Taskforce
Launched 1 October 2013, funded by TfL and DfT
Made up of officers from MPS, DVSA, and CoLP
Target the most non-complaint and dangerous vehicles
Since launch:
over 360 high visibility roadside operations totaling over 18,000 man hours of enforcement activity
3000 vehicles stopped
over 1500 roadworthiness prohibitions
over 210 drivers hours prohibitions.
880 Fixed Penalty Notices for driver and vehicle related infringements
seized 41 of the most dangerous vehicles
over 60 follow up investigations referred to Traffic Commissioner, resulting in a large number of public inquiry submissions
25 prosecutions fast tracked through the criminal justice system

8. Questions
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