Last chance for useless cops

THE jailing of a Polish lorry driver for slaughtering a family while looking at his stupid phone is only partly just. Millions of British people have come close to doing something similar and have only been saved from it by the grace of God.

Using your phone while driving is about as sane and sensible as throwing knives at your children while blindfolded. The trouble is that people are so selfish and complacent that they do not find this out until they kill or maim someone.

And they don’t believe they will. Nor are they in the least impressed by calls for ‘tougher sentences’ for this crime. Because they know – as one driver I upbraided recently told me – that the police don’t care and will do nothing about it.

Indeed they won’t. I continue to be amazed that anyone still defends our police against the charge of uselessness which I ceaselessly level at them. What is it that they do, apart from monitoring Twitter, festooning the place with tape and racing to crimes after they have happened and it is too late? When did you last see an actual traffic patrol? I’d guess 1987.

The solution may well be to sack the police and start again. But let’s give them one last chance. Get out there now and arrest everyone you see using a phone at the wheel. The CPS can join in by actually charging them.

Only when everyone knows someone who’s in jail for this moronic offence will it cease. That’s how drunk driving was stamped out and how seat-belts became standard. Enforcement.