Camden police to copy West Midlands close-pass initiative

I'd love to hear the responses, I bet it won't be "I gave him plenty of room" or "it's ok because I didn't hit him", which is the typical response you'll get as a cyclist.

As much as I think this is a step in the right direction, there's just not going to be enough police doing this to make much difference. What they should be doing is working on accepting and properly dealing with reports/videos sent in by the public. There's far more of us cyclists than there are police, and if it's made easy enough, we'd happily send in video clips of close passes if we thought the police would actually do anything.

The met have already admitted they've let us down badly when the police chief says they wouldn't cycle in London, too dangerous.

The only issue with this is 1 just doing it in Camden and 2 saying they are just doing it on Camden.

“thus creating a scenario whereby should someone not give a cyclist the time and space necessary or fail to see them completely they should expect to be prosecuted.”

I thought plod's job was all about making people feel good in the community and posting on social media these days, not finding naugty people and nicking 'em....

Why have they finally remembered what they are for?

I live in the north of the borough and shall be keeping my fingers crossed that this actually happens. As a rule of thumb our local officers are very good at nicking bin-diving fregans and keeping UK Uncut picnickers off of Lord Freud's lawn, not so good at traffic policing.

I think the most important bit of all this is the use of plain clothes policemen on bicycles.

As we know, British drivers on the whole obey traffic law only when they think they will get caught if they don't.  

Good intentions here, will check in again to see the resolve and results. But for now, good on them.