Traffic Law and Upcoming E**m

Mr Bill has had an interesting week ending with role-playing in a local motorway service station car park. Drama students from the local college turned up to act in scenarios for Mr Bill and his colleagues. The situations were such as:
a car pulled over as the driver was weaving across the road
a car spotted as having a light not working

The students took their roles very seriously and as some of them had been told to act up - they did.
Mr Bill always enjoys these role-play sessions, much more than some of the other recruits; but they managed well and were told they have all improved considerably since the morning spent role-playing in Llanffuglen Shopping Centre a while back.
Next week is serious study as they have the exam on Thursday and Mr Bill is keen to do better in this one than the last.
One of the talks they had this week was about road accident investigation. The Collision Investigation Unit is required to attend the scene of any serious accident to take pictures, measurements etc. It is imperative that the officer arrives at the scene as quickly as possible as the road may be closed and cannot open until after the investigation has occurred. This means the officer is obliged to drive around most of the time in a high performance car with siren and blue lights on. They all have to pass the advanced driving exam, which Mr Bill is quite keen on doing. Apparently you need to be hot on maths – presumably trigonometry to work out angles and distances. There is at present a shortage of Collision Investigation Officers and Mr Bill is looking forward to his time on Traffic from Monday 5th November–Friday 16th November to see whether he would like to join them when he has finished his initial training.
The sorts of traffic law Mr Bill has been learning consist of definitions, precise wordings of cautions to be read to drivers as well as the actual relevant road traffic acts. It seems the Police have lots of powers – one of them being that if they try to pull you over but you don’t stop they can come round to your house, smash your door down (if you won’t let them in), and arrest you.

Mr Bill also watched the adverts, shown only in Northern Ireland, to warn of the dangers of dangerous driving and drink driving. They cannot be shown on mainland UK as they are too graphic, but the resilient NI audience can take the tough scenes depicted. Mr Bill is going to give copies of these movies to the older of the Bill offspring as he thinks they should be aware of the possible results of mixing alcohol or reckless behaviour with driving