Driving test examiners might be provided body cameras after a spate of attacks by failed candidates.
Around 240 examiners were physically or verbally abused in 2016, up by a third on the previous year. There were a even more 60 attacks on DVSA car testers as well as roadside enforcement officers.
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The government company is now trialling body-worn cameras for front-line staff. They will at first be provided to roadside workers however might be rolled out to include driving test examiners if they show effective.
The DVSA likewise pledged to make abusive learner chauffeurs take their next test at a different location, as well as guaranteed to refer all events of risks as well as assaults to the police.
In March a driving test candidate in West Yorkshire who was asked to stop his vehicle after committing a number of major errors swore at the examiner as well as drove wildly across a double carriageway. The examiner had to utilize double controls to stop the vehicle. The chauffeur was banned from that test centre as well as will be supervised for future tests.
Gareth Llewellyn, chief executive of the DVSA, said: “I am immensely happy of my colleagues at DVSA, all of whom work extremely difficult to assist you stay risk-free on Britain’s roads. We do not tolerate anybody abusing, endangering or assaulting them. Our message is remove – whatever has happened, don’t take it out on our staff. If you do, we’ll press for the strongest possible penalties.”
RAC road security spokesperson Pete Williams said: “Examiners at the DVSA play a important function in ensuring the security of chauffeurs as well as cars on our roads on a everyday basis. It’s for that reason disappointing to see such a marked boost in the level of verbal as well as physical abuse they are encountering from the extremely people they are trying to help.
“The majority of UK chauffeurs as well as road individuals will wholeheartedly support a zero-tolerance method to such behaviour.”
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