Back To Driving School For Halton Cops

[rafiki911]

Thought this was interesting...

http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/loca...or-halton-cops

A rash of accidents has prompted Halton Region police to order officers to take mandatory driver training. But they’re not the only force to do so — the OPP made the same decision last year.

In the first six months of this year, Halton police cars were involved in 70 accidents, 41 of them classified as preventable, with $158,780 in damage — including four write-offs. Accidents were up 23 per cent over 2009.

None of the preventable crashes occurred when cruisers were travelling through red lights with emergency lights on. The main reasons listed were more prosaic, such as hitting something while reversing, sometimes out of a mall parking spot.

Officers must now take an online course that takes about 90 minutes to complete and focuses on avoiding distractions and being more aware of potential hazards.

Sgt. Dave Cross stressed that the number of preventable crashes is down five per cent from last year.

Many of the 41 in the first half of this year were caused by going too fast for conditions, following too closely or making improper turns.

[TwistedKestrel]

Mandatory driver training = 90 minute online course? Yeah, that'll do it.

[rafiki911]

Pretty dumb eh.

Mandatory driver training = 90 minute online course? Yeah, that'll do it.

[Sushii]

Mandatory driver training = 90 minute online course? Yeah, that'll do it.

Just another way to waste the tax payers money.

[nfq]

Many of the 41 in the first half of this year were caused by going too fast for conditions, following too closely or making improper turns.

Hypocrites.

[rafiki911]

lmao that's actually the cheapest way to train these cops. The most expensive way would to be to hire trainers and actually have a few days of training for each of them every year.

What they don't realize is giving them proper training and spending the money on their safety would be the cheapest way to go. Getting into collisions and having officers off and being payed while being off and the damage to the vehicles cost far more.... IMO

Just another way to waste the tax payers money.

[dr_sarcasm]

Hypocrites.

This.

I wonder how many of them were charged...*cough* *yeahrightlikethatsgonnahappen* *cough*

[Sushii]

lmao that's actually the cheapest way to train these cops. The most expensive way would to be to hire trainers and actually have a few days of training for each of them every year.

What they don't realize is giving them proper training and spending the money on their safety would be the cheapest way to go. Getting into collisions and having officers off and being payed while being off and the damage to the vehicles cost far more.... IMO

Sure it may be the cheapest but its the least effective. I'm doubt it even brings results... because the work training @ my workplace doesn't work at all. Yet we still have to do them monthly.

[FullMotoJacket]

I can't complain. A ticket I'm fighting is going to get 11b'd because the OPP that wrote it got in an accident, was on workman's comp, and couldn't testify.




7-10 someone's turbosense®™ just started tingling.

[Psycho_Biker]

Well that explains why they never catch me, they can't even grasp regular driving!

[CanadianBiker]

From some of the things I saw today, there are more than a few riders who would benefit from remedial classes. And training wheels.

[Myztyk]

What you didn't hear is that the 90 minutes of training involves them logging onto Xbox Live and playing NFS: Hot Pursuit as the cop for 3 hours against a select group of 14 year olds.

[crankcall]

I live in the middle of Halton and get lots of opportunity to see troops in action. Some of the police driving/parking is terrible. I could count "right turns on reds without stopping" all day .

[unL33T]

I wish they'd learn how their turn signals work. And what red lights mean.