While in South Yorkshire the Romanian officers observed various roads policing tactics and techniques employed by South Yorkshire Police, studied how serious collisions are investigated in South Yorkshire and how we have integrated Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology.

TISPOL general secretary Ian Hamill comments: “Exchanges offer the opportunity for police officers to visit and observe activities taking place which have been found to improve road safety in a particular country. The officers themselves benefit greatly from seeing this first hand, are able to engage with colleagues on the ground and go back to their own police force and share their knowledge and experiences.

 “They can advocate, through their own hierarchy, for similar measures to be introduced in their own country. We have seen this specifically with penalty points, drug-driving, automated speeding and ANPR. The feedback we received has been very positive and we believe this is also helping to deliver safer roads in Europe.”

The TISPOL Organisation has been established by the traffic police forces of Europe in order to improve road safety and law enforcement on European roads. Its main priority is to reduce the number of people being killed and seriously injured on Europe's roads.