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06 December 2007
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Speeding police chief admits '
A SENIOR police chief today admitted his driving ban for speeding had brought roads policing into “a degree of disrepute”.
South Yorkshire Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes added that his conviction had made the job of his colleagues “a little more difficult”.
He was speaking at an Institute of Advanced Motorists lunch in London where he again apologised for his offence, which involved driving at 90mph on a 60mph stretch of the A4 in North Wales on May 28.
Mr Hughes was yesterday at Wrexham Magistrates Court banned for 42 days and ordered to pay £350 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to speeding.
Introducing Mr Hughes as a guest speaker at today’s lunch, IAM chairman David Kenworthy said: “Med (Mr Hughes) has had a little issue. He did offer to stand down from this engagement but you don’t get out of a talk like this. I would not let him stand down.”
When he rose to speak, Mr Hughes said: “Yes, I did offer to stand down because I didn’t want to embarrass the IAM.
“I’m never afraid to stand on my own two feet but I didn’t want this to be about an individual personality but about the IAM.
“I have apologised in the media and I have apologised to my colleagues and now I apologise to the IAM.”
Mr Hughes said, to laughter: “I am probably the first disqualified driver to speak to you although I take no pride in that.”
In the rest of his speech, Mr Hughes, the former head of road policing for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said he supported a lowering of the UK legal drink-drive limit from 80mg to 50mg.
He added that he was also keen to see a new offence brought in – that of driving a vehicle on a road under the influence of an illegal drug.
He said that if that happened, a test for that particular drug could be taken, and that the current drug-drive enforcement had contained difficulties.
Mr Kenworthy said: “I hope he, Mr Hughes, will always be remembered for his work on Acpo road policing rather than any other issue.”
Safety groups have criticised what they see as the lenient sentence for Mr Hughes and there have been calls for him to resign.
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