File. Vehicle Defects General

Includes correspondence relating to the Commercial Vehicle Defect Rectification Scheme, 'Q' Plate Registration and marks, Police access to enforcement and testing information concerning numberplates, wheel loss from commercial vehicles and buses, roadside vehicle checks, and the stopping of 'Cash in Transit' vehicles; a copy of an ACPO paper entitled 'Commercial Vehicle Defect Rectification Scheme' (1996); a report by Durham Constabulary entitled 'Commercial Vehicle Defect Rectification Scheme: Traffic Branch' (1990); a paper entitled ''Q' Plate Registration' submitted by the 'Q' Plate Working Group to ACPO Chief Constables' Council; a list of Q marks allocated to each Police force's area; copies of press cuttings relating to wheel loss from commercial vehicles; a copy of a report by the Central Motorway Police Group entitled 'Commercial Vehicle Wheel Loss'; a copy of the Police results of a National Wheel Loss Survey; a leaflet published by BRAKE: The UK's independent commercial vehicle safety research group; a copy of the 'Code of Practice for Road Traffic Enforcement Checks on 'In Service' Passenger Carrying Vehicles'; a copy of a paper for the ACPO Traffic Committee entitled 'Q Plated Vehicle Registration' (1996), and a copy of a paper for the ACPO Traffic Committee entitled 'Stopping of 'Cash in Transit' Vehicles by Government Agencies (1996).

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