Abstract
The project PEPPER (Police Enforcement Policy and Programmes on European
Roads) aimed to contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of traffic law
enforcement on EU roads. While the focus of the project was on traffic
policing, the whole enforcement chain was examined- from policy choices about
the role of police in road safety, through traffic law making, traffic police
enforcement practices and the handling of driving offences by the courts. The
focus of the project was on the enforcement of speeding, drink-driving and use
of seat belts. With regard to these unsafe behaviours, more detailed
analyses were made of the planning and implementation of their actual
enforcement across member states, the potential of new technologies to support
better enforcement and improved compliance, and of the conditions and means
to disseminate good practices for effective traffic policing. The availability
of enforcement data in Member States was surveyed and suggestions were made
concerning uniform, EU-wide enforcement data collection methods and databases.
Innovative technologies in Traffic Law Enforcement were described and their
potentials assessed, including the applications regarding cross-border
enforcement. Good practices were described concerning strategic planning and
tactical deployment in traffic law enforcement as well as collection and use
of enforcement data for monitoring and evaluation purposes. The knowledge of
the effects of enforcement in key areas was updated by applying meta-analysis
to previous studies.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | European Commission EC |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
| MoE publication type | D4 Published development or research report or study |