22-12-2021 - Colorado, USA-RTA. Mangled bicycle liying in the road after it was hit by a car on a busy street in suburban Denver. Policer car. © Jim West

15-09-2021 - Police Community Support Officers enforcing the speed limit of 30mph with a speed gun. Charlecote village, Warwickshire. Speed checks on vehicles using a handheld Ultralyte 1000 laser speedmeter check... © John Harris

15-09-2021 - Police Community Support Officers enforcing the speed limit of 30mph with a speed gun. Charlecote village, Warwickshire. Speed checks on vehicles using a handheld Ultralyte 1000 laser speedmeter check... © John Harris

15-09-2021 - Police Community Support Officers enforcing the speed limit of 30mph with a speed gun. Charlecote village, Warwickshire. Speed checks on vehicles using a handheld Ultralyte 1000 laser speedmeter check... © John Harris

15-09-2021 - Police Community Support Officers enforcing the speed limit of 30mph with a speed gun. Charlecote village, Warwickshire. Speed checks on vehicles using a handheld Ultralyte 1000 laser speedmeter check... © John Harris

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, detaining a driver for suspected alcohol or drug impairment. Checking pupil response and walking the line © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, detaining a driver for suspected alcohol or drug impairment. Checking pupil response and walking the line © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, detaining a driver for suspected alcohol or drug impairment. Checking pupil response and walking the line © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, checking for driver alcohol or drug impairment © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, checking for driver alcohol or drug impairment © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, detaining a driver for suspected alcohol or drug impairment © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, detaining a driver for suspected alcohol or drug impairment © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, detaining a driver for suspected alcohol or drug impairment © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, detaining a driver for suspected alcohol or drug impairment © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, detaining a driver for suspected alcohol or drug impairment. Checking pupil response and walking the line © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, detaining a driver for suspected alcohol or drug impairment. Checking pupil response and walking the line © Jim West

23-06-2016 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Police sobriety checkpoint, Vegas Valley Drive, detaining a driver for suspected alcohol or drug impairment. A police officer holds a Duquenois-Levine field test kit that shows the... © Jim West

05-06-2015 - Appleby Horse Fair, Cumbria, Police warning Tom Harker a horse dealer to slow down when showing horses. © David Mansell

05-06-2015 - Appleby Horse Fair, Cumbria, Police warn this man to slow down with his horses. RSPCA Equine inspectors check the horse bits to see if they are causing pain to the horses. © David Mansell

05-06-2015 - Appleby Horse Fair, Cumbria, Tom Harker a horse dealer from Darlington proudly driving his two horses past the Grapes Public House speeding along the Sands road. © David Mansell

05-06-2015 - Appleby Horse Fair, Cumbria, RSPCA Equine inspectors check the horses mouth to see if it is suffering an uncomfortable horse bit © David Mansell

20-05-2015 - Wickham Horse Fair a traditional one day annual event, Hampshire. Police Officer working with RSPCA and trying to find the mobile telephone number of a driver who had left his dog in a van with insuff... © David Mansell

20-05-2015 - Wickham Horse Fair a traditional one day annual event, Hampshire. RSPCA and Police trying to find the driver who had left his dog a van with insufficient ventilation. © David Mansell

20-05-2015 - Wickham Horse Fair a traditional one day annual event, Hampshire. RSPCA and Police trying to find the driver who had left his dog a van with insufficient ventilation. © David Mansell

10-03-2015 - Trucks pulled over as part of the regular roadside checks by DVSA staff to ensure that HGVs are safe to drive on British roads. A vehicle inspector at a permanent check site off the M25 halts an HGV,... © Stefano Cagnoni

10-03-2015 - Trucks pulled over as part of the regular roadside checks by DVSA staff to ensure that HGVs are safe to drive on British roads. A female vehicle inspector at a permanent check site off the M25 prepare... © Stefano Cagnoni

10-03-2015 - Trucks pulled over as part of the regular roadside checks by DVSA staff to ensure that HGVs are safe to drive on British roads. A female vehicle inspector at a permanent check site off the M25 directi... © Stefano Cagnoni

10-03-2015 - Trucks pulled over as part of the regular roadside checks by DVSA staff to ensure that HGVs are safe to drive on British roads. A vehicle inspector at a permanent check site off the M25 prepares to in... © Stefano Cagnoni

22-04-2014 - PCSO taking speed measurements on a rural village road to raise speeding awareness amongst drivers, Spalding, Lincolnshire © Timm Sonnenschein

22-04-2014 - PCSO taking speed measurements on a rural village road to raise speeding awareness amongst drivers, Spalding, Lincolnshire © Timm Sonnenschein

21-08-2013 - Police officer using a LTI 20:20 Speedscope mobile Speed camera To detect speeding motorists, Warwickshire. © John Harris

25-07-2013 - Falfurrias, Texas - A baseball cap with a Texas America logo lies on the road after a van holding 26 undocumented immigrants from Central America overturned on Texas Highway 285. The driver had picked... © Jim West

25-07-2013 - Falfurrias, Texas - A deputy sheriff and a state trooper making notes after a van holding 26 undocumented immigrants from Central America overturned on Texas Highway 285. The driver had picked up the... © Jim West

25-07-2013 - Falfurrias, Texas - A deputy sheriff and a state trooper look on while a passing motorist treats an injured man after a van holding 26 undocumented immigrants from Central America overturned on Texas... © Jim West

06-04-2013 - Cardboard cutout Policeman, intended to prevent crime and reduce the perception of fear of crime. They have been deployed in petrol stations to deter drivers from driving away without paying for their... © John Harris

27-07-2012 - Police intervene in an angry argument between taxi drivers in the street, Birmingham © John Harris

18-04-2012 - Police interview one of the drivers at the scene of a car crash on the slip road of the M32, Bristol. © Paul Box

24-03-2012 - Locals taunt the police at closing time, Barnsley centre. © Connor Matheson

30-11-2010 - Police form a guard around a Bentley Arnage car, worth around a quarter of a million pounds, after the driver tried to barge his was through an impromptu march by students who walked out in protest ag... © Justin Tallis

25-03-2009 - Speed camera that has been vandalised on the A361 in Devon. © Paul Box

16-03-2009 - A vandalised speed camera on the A361. © Paul Box

10-12-2008 - An elderly man walking his dog from his car along a road in the hills above Merthyr Tydfil © John Harris

10-12-2008 - An elderly man walking his dog from his car along a road in the hills above Merthyr Tydfil © John Harris

16-07-2008 - Policemen checking a mans identification in a stop and search. Nottingham. © Justin Tallis

16-07-2008 - Policemen checking a mans identification in a stop and search. Nottingham. © Justin Tallis

12-07-2008 - Driver arguing with a parking attendant who has just issued a ticket for exceeding the time allowed. © John Harris

25-02-2008 - A wrecked car by a dual carriageway sign on the Harrow Road, West London. © Philip Wolmuth

18-08-2007 - A vandalised speed camera. © Paul Box

18-08-2007 - A vandalised speed camera. © Paul Box

30-10-2006 - Damaged Gatso speed camera. © John Harris

30-10-2006 - Damaged Gatso speed camera. © John Harris

30-10-2006 - Damaged Gatso speed camera. © John Harris

14-07-2006 - Police and ambulance at the scene of a overturned car involved in an accident at a blackspot junction in Holloway, north London. In the past 3 years 17 collisions have occurred at this junction, one i... © Stefano Cagnoni

13-07-2006 - Police Officer takes measurements at the scene of a road fatality on Holloway Road in north London. The victim ws killed as he crossed this busy arterial route by the HGV seen in the background © Stefano Cagnoni

13-07-2006 - Police Officer takes measurements at the scene of a road fatality on Holloway Road in north London. The victim ws killed as he crossed this busy arterial route by the HGV seen in the background © Stefano Cagnoni

22-04-2006 - A woman police officer pulls over a young motorist for bad driving. © Paul Box

22-04-2006 - A woman police officer pulls over a young motorist for bad driving. © Paul Box

17-02-2005 - Police stop truck driver to check the weight of his trailer. Also they are checking the vehicles tachograph to make sure the driver isn?exceeding 9 hours a day at the wheel. Caerleon, South Wales © Justin Tallis

17-02-2005 - Police stop truck driver to check the weight of his trailer. Also they are checking the vehicles tachograph to make sure the driver isn?exceeding 9 hours a day at the wheel. Caerleon, South Wales © Justin Tallis

12-10-2004 - Traffic police handing out on the spot fine tickets to drivers illegally using a bus lane during the morning rush hour, Sheffield © David Bocking

12-10-2004 - Traffic police handing out on the spot fine tickets to drivers illegally using a bus lane during the morning rush hour, Sheffield © David Bocking

30-06-2004 - Police car speeding away, Lockleaze Bristol. © Paul Box

14-09-2000 - Police presence at a petrol station in Manchester during the fuel crisis, to allow only essential service employees to buy fuel. The shortages were caused by lorry drivers and farmers blockades in pro... © Paul Herrmann

10-09-2000 - Lorry drivers and farmers formed a blockade outside the Manchester Fuels Terminal, Trafford Park, preventing tankers from leaving in protest at high fuel prices. © Paul Herrmann

24-09-1998 - A Bus driver with the broken windscreen of a bus after an attack inwhich paving stones were thrown breaking the glass. Burden, France. © Marta NASCIMENTO

26-04-1988 - Dover Port NUS and P&O dispute. Seafarers attempt to persuade lorry drivers not to board the ferries crewed by strike breaker The P&O ferry company sacked the workers in an attempt to derecognise the... © John Harris

28-02-1985 - Miners Strike 1985 Police Range Rover driving at pickets. Mass picket confront police on the streets in a confrontation that went on all night. Cortonwood pit village, Brampton, Yorkshire © John Harris

28-02-1985 - Miners Strike 1985 Cortonwood Police Range Rovers driving at pickets. Mass picket confront police on the streets in a confrontation that went on all night. Cortonwood pit village, Brampton, Yorkshire © John Harris

28-02-1985 - Miners Strike 1985 Cortonwood Police Range Rovers driving at pickets. Mass picket confront police on the streets in a confrontation that went on all night. Cortonwood pit village, Brampton, Yorkshire © John Harris

28-02-1985 - Police Range Rover driving at pickets. Miners Strike 1985 Mass picket, Cortonwood pit village, Brampton, Yorkshire © John Sturrock

17-10-1984 - Picket hit by Police horsebox Rossington Colliery 1984 Paramedics moving injured miner (Darren Price) into an Ambulance. He was injured by a Police horsebox driving onto the pavement during a mass pic... © John Harris

10-04-1984 - Striking miners picketing coal imports Wivenhoe 1984. Police prevent pickets from speaking to lorry drivers at the a small Essex port © John Sturrock

22-03-1984 - Police roadblock prevent picketing of pits, 1984 Midlands © John Harris

27-07-1981 - Toxteth riots, Liverpool 1981. Police driving armoured Land Rover at rioters at night during some of the worst inner city urban riots in mainland Britain. © John Harris

12-04-1981 - Firefighters, burning car, Police, Brixton riots London 1981. Police van driving round a burning car as firefigters try to put out the fire © NLA

23-06-1980 - Mass picket, Adwest Engineering Ltd, Reading 1980. Pickets talking to scab crosing their picket line. 58 workers sacked for holding a mass meeting against cuts in wages and conditions © Peter Arkell