Poirot, we will have to agree to differ on this : )

Ludwig, I can see how it would be difficult to police tailgating unless they actually spotted it happening themselves.

What if someone was upset with someone else for whatever reason, and 'reported' them as a tailgater, even if they didn't do it?
I doubt many people would buy cameras for their cars just in case...

<< Ludwig, I can see how it would be difficult to police tailgating unless they actually spotted it happening themselves. >>

Suse, we have been implored to ‘dob in a hoon’, ‘dob in a smoky or excessively noisy vehicle’ and ‘dob in a stranger whose doing absolutely nothing wrong but we ain’t seen him around here before and that is what we are supposed to do as part of neighbourhood watch’!

The police CAN deal with things that they don’t witness themselves.

Of course, they have to carefully examine the veracity of the complaint.

They absolutely not be discouraging the public from making complaints about ANY illegal activity.

And they absolutely should not be failing to act on complaints!!

<< I doubt many people would buy cameras for their cars just in case... >>

If the police were receptive, I’d be doing that tomorrow! And I reckon there’d be plenty of people who would.

It would only a take very small portion of the general public to do something like that to effectively double or triple the policing effort on our roads. Then once the general public realises that it is not just the very thin blue line that can bring offenders undone, most rank drivers are likely to pull their silly looking woolly heads in and drive properly!

Hey we can record evidence really easily on a smart phone or similar device! Of course the driver can't do it while he's driving, but a passenger could.

Poirot,
Being a leftie you got it all back to front again as is their norm. Qld was a Police State but the Coalition is turning that around. Qld will once again become a state in which Police deal with those they should be dealing with & not let the real criminals run free as they did under your mates. You really must make an effort to learn the difference between integirty & decency vs toeing the line complicity & corruption furthered by pseudo academic intellect incompetence.

Individual,

"....Qld will once again become a state in which Police deal with those they should be dealing with & not let the real criminals run free as they did under your mates..."

Yes, I can see, from the deployment of the crack tissue-detecting SWAT team that they're onto a good thing.

Zealotry it's called.

Good luck with that - you'll need it.

: )

Ludwig,
Because major traffic violations involve the potential to cause death of physical harm to people and property damage to cars and infrastructure these incidents should be treated as premeditated criminal offenses and the perpetrators,on proof and conviction, locked up for a couple of years and their vehicles confiscated to the state and their drivers licenses removed for life.

cont
I forgot to add on a third conviction ten years prison time.