SA motorcycle police livid
Have blamed pressure to meet traffic stop quotas as a major reason for the increasing road toll in the stateSouth Australia’s motorcycle police are incensed, citing a requirement “to get the numbers” (on busy city roads) to meet management-imposed targets for pulling people over, rather than patrolling “minor rural roads where many fatalities happen”.
According to a report in the Adelaide Advertiser, the scathing assessment is included in a University of Adelaide study of the SA police’s controversial plan (see link below) to restructure its highway patrol and motorcycle police patrol sections, reducing motorcycle numbers in the process.
The study was commissioned by the state’s police association to back its case against the changes, where a number of motorcycle police have blamed management decisions for the increasing road toll.
The motorcycle police have also expressed disappointment that they are often seconded on other duties, are restricted on where they can travel, and that there is less overtime allowed to go to country areas.
Deputy Commissioner Gary Burns attacked the comments by officers as “ill-informed and inaccurate”
“Of SAPOL's 4400 members only about a dozen officers contributed to this report - none of them being from the senior executive," he told the Advertiser.
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