The Metropolitan Police has re-launched a major highway safety operation after a tripling of road deaths in 2015 compared to the same period last year.
The force's Operation Safeway will see more than 600 officers deployed at 166 key junctions across London during morning and evening peak periods for six weeks to enforce traffic rules. The operation started in autumn 2013 after six cyclists died on the capital's roads in a fortnight.
The Met said its officers would take "a robust approach, targeting all road users, including cars, lorries, HGVs, cyclists and motorcyclists found committing traffic offences... There will be a specific focus on mobile phone usage while driving, speeding, failure to wear seat belts, red light violation, failure to comply with advanced stop lines, vehicle defects and no insurance".
Superintendent Robert Revill, roads and transport policing command, said: "We must reverse this trend which is why over the next six weeks we will be focusing heavily on road safety."
Labour recently suggested in the press that a rise in those killed and seriously injured is due to cut-backs in the resourcing of traffic police.
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