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They have a limited budget and limited resource, would you prefer that they ran around chasing cars without MOTs or that they investigated rapes, assaults and burglaries?

 

Must be quite expensive to chase them around, on the road, much easier to go around to their abode before they kill someone with their defective brakes.

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No matter how they do it, a police officer following up an MOTd car isn't following up another crime. They have limited resource, do you really want them to concentrate on cars with no MOT?

An automated fine in the post could do the job just as well.

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No matter how they do it, a police officer following up an MOTd car isn't following up another crime. They have limited resource, do you really want them to concentrate on cars with no MOT?

An automated fine in the post could do the job just as well.

 

If a car has no MOT, it may well be illegal in other ways.

 

So they can either try and catch offenders now, or wait untill they are driving around and catch them in a months time.

 

Why don't MPs or even you Cyclone, campaign so that a fine does get sent to the registered keeper, when a ANPR camera pings for no MOT? Of course they would need tighter rules on filling out the V5.

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Why on earth do you think that I should campaign about something that you apparently care about. How about YOU campaign about it instead.

It wouldn't be as simple as you suggest though, since there are various ways that ping could be triggered.

a) driving the car to an appointment for an MOT, this is a legal exemption.

b) on the flatbed of a lorry being taken somewhere for repair.

c) on tow

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