Member

The last thing the Government usually say—we often hear it here, and we have perhaps heard it a little today—is that we just need the police to enforce the existing law. I agree, but I have already pointed out that most of the deterrence mechanism detection methods do not work for cyclists. There is good work by the enforcement agencies—that is, the police. The best example I have found is in the City of London Police, where Sergeant Stu Ford is leading his small team of cyclists in combating road cyclists. I went out with them, and they are having an effect. On the morning when I went with them, we walked just a few yards out of the police station to set up a morning check in the City. There were cyclists ignoring pedestrian crossings and red lights, and moving dangerously through pedestrians, despite the fact that they were outside a police station and there were six or seven uniformed officers on cycles, on the road and on the pavement. I do not believe that enforcement alone will cut it, but it clearly has to be part of the solution.