Wondered about this one for a while and will preface it by saying I believe the police do a very good job often under difficult circumstances.
I have often wondered by when the police pull someone often the feel a need to cause traffic jams. Yes from time to time when someone is pulled over for a violation there is not really easy way to position the vehicles or no were else to park and blocking the road is unavoidable. Most of the times I have seen people pulled over this is not the case like today, just less than an hour ago.
So I am driving through downtown along 100 Ave, a trying drive most of the time when everyone starts to pull over to the left lane, near the coop slowing traffic to a crawl. I join the slow traffic as I needed the left anyhow, so the traffic is now backed up to the coop. As I get closer to 100St I can see a police car light on parked just about at the corner of 100Ave with the intersection of 100St. As I draw closer, remember everyone is going really slow I see there seems to be no accident just a jeep pulled over, parked right on the corner driver waiting for his ticket. The police car, it was actually a Peace Officer not RCMP or By-Law, completely blocked the right lane.
So why? Is it a power trip that they can just block traffic to give a ticket? Could the driver of the vehicle that has been pulled over be asked to move to a safer place such as the parking lot around the corner would this not be safer for all involved? We all know what a number of Grande Prairie drivers can be like, situations like this only cause these drivers to get frustrated and make stupid moves putting lives and property at risk.
Now maybe the reason is that the law states that they cannot move to a safe place to issue the ticket in which case maybe the law needs to be looked at.
Anyhow there we have my comments for the day on this subject, I would be interested to here what other people think about this, I know I don’t know any police officers personally anymore, I did a number of years ago as we had a fair number involved in scouting in GP.
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