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IT MAY be that the new system of issuing tickets for motoring offences will save time for the police and the courts, but this is its only advantage. According to Mr John Over, secretary of the Association of Chief Police Officers traffic committee, the police will be encouraged to use 'great discretion', but this will not be enough to counter the natural tendency of those with increased power to become more oppres- sive. The offences for which tickets will be issued will usually be much more disput- able than parking offences, and motorists will be disposed to dispute them. Relations between the police and the millions who make up the motoring population will become more unpleasant. This will be particularly marked because of another important difference between these off- ences and parking fines — the majority of parking tickets are issued in the absence of the driver and simply tucked under his windscreen wiper; almost all the new tick- ets will have to be written out by police in the heat of the moment and handed to the driver in person.
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