ACPO wants to ban Motorcycles (Yeah Right)

The Association of Chief Police Officers have told the Commons Transport Committee that it’s time to consider banning motorcycles from the roads.

They consider them to be ‘motorised toys’ which may not belong on the public highways.

The association apparently based its call on the false claim that production motorcycles can top speeds of over 200mph.

In fact, not a single production bike has broken the 200mph barrier unlike many of the production cars,

So if the ACPO want to ban motorcycles how about first of banning all cars say over 1300cc or all 4×4′s (except for agricultural use).

Proposals from the Association of Chief Police Officers to ban motorcycles were written under the direction of a three-time convicted speeder South Yorkshires Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes.

Meredydd Hughes, who was last year banned from driving for his latest offence, has “overall” responsibility for the department that produced the memo, the association confirmed.

A spokesman said the South Yorkshire chief constable was “head of business area for uniformed operations including road policing”.

Hughes publicly stepped down as ‘head of road policing, business area’ after receiving a 42-day ban for reaching 90mph in a 60mph zone. The revelation he is still performing the same role suggests this was nothing more than a smoke-and-mirrors face-saving exercise.

ACPO has tried to play down its proposals, made to MPs in the influential Commons Transport Committee.

The association issued a statement claiming it was not seeking to ban motorcycles but adding: ‘Alongside a range of other road safety bodies in the UK and Europe, ACPO believes it may be appropriate in future to consider restriction on high-powered machines with extraordinarily high top speed capabilities.’

It claimed the proposals had ‘referred to consideration of restrictions on the use of off-road motorcycles’ – even though they had specifically asked whether high-powered bikes belonged on ‘our congested roads’.

Hughes’ speeding ban led him to be branded a “complete buffoon” guilty of “mind-numbing hypocrisy” by late anti-speed camera campaigner Paul Smith of Safe Speed. In his ACPO road-policing role, the diminutive police chief had taken a hard line on speeding.

Despite coming into the job in 2005 with six points on his licence from two speeding offences, he’d called for more cameras.

In 2006 he created a special legal team to scare people out of contesting speeding charges, saying: “Come and get us if you think you’re hard enough.” MCN later revealed the team was a private company – and Hughes was director.

Come on guy’s it just isn’t going to happen, what about civil liberties and freewill, or are these going to be taken away from us to,

Stay Safe,

oneleggedfreak.