But public attitudes to what is and what is not acceptable can, and do, change. For the police, it does not mean the creation of a separate dedicated national traffic police force, but a strategy for involving all police officers, whether traffic specialist or not, in improving road safety in partnership with the community. Campaigns with public awareness are an important tool, besides the enforcement of the police. Most people's expectation of road policing is to be, or to see others being booked for speeding or not wearing seat belts. Reactions range from resentment of their bad luck to a desire for much more high visibility presence an intervention.
Enforcement remains the last resort, when self-regulation and education have yet to succeed.
Nevertheless combined enforcement strategy can be most effected. For example an enforcement combination for speeding and not wearing safety belts. In the UK drink drive and safety belts campaigns with co-ordinated media programmes have dramatically altered peoples views and understanding. Pupils from a local school, as part of their social education programme, survey areas for the number of people not wearing seat belts. They returned to the same location after any action or change and evaluated it again, providing good, wholly unbiased statistics for the police.