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What do you mean proper Police not like Traffic! We're very lucky here in NZ that Traffic Policing isn't taken too seriously, in the UK Traffic Police are feared. If you get stopped and see the Cop has a black hat (normal Cop) on then you may get away with it but if he has a white top to his hat (Traffic Cop) then your knackered! Traffic Policing is taken very seriously over there. We haven't started to get serious here yet but i would like to see more Traffic Cops out there policing the roads, i agree handing out tickets isn't solely the key and education and stricter rules are needed. Kiwi adventure – As for a Pom running the LTSA whats wrong with that? getting someone from another country to run a department that needs some common sense and experience is a good idea and one that will improve roading over here. it just a pity we don't get someone running LTNZ and then we may have some decent roads! We need to embrace changes, i know most of us don't like change and especially if you don't see theres a problem but there is a problem and its killing people. Some of you are lucky enough not to see the carnage of a fatality, deal with the bodies and families but i do and that does change your view on roading. I have the up most respect for my colleagues in the 111 services who deal with these incidents then have to go home and try to have a normal life. So Kiwi adventure before you start having a go, go out with the Traffic Police for a while and visit the scenes of fatalities and see for yourself, it easy to sit on the sidelines and criticise! As for the changing the age of driving it has been proven that the brain isn't mature enough at 15 to understand the consequences of speed and bad driving. Remember being that age and thinking you were bulletproof! I don't know what its like where you come from but up here in Auckland all ages are dying including 15 year olds. Personally i would like to see stricter rules where Police could take peoples licences off them for some of the more minor offences not just drink driving, boy racer or speed. At the end of the day they are there to protect us not just from crime but from killing each other on the roads as well. So as Bwucie has already mentioned if you think we have no problem then you are part of the problem.