Should there be specialist traffic enforcement officers?

Opinion

New specialist traffic officers will be used to issue speeding tickets, freeing police to concentrate on fighting crime.

And in another high-level proposal, up to 40 per cent of police in main cities will no longer be able to use guns - a move away from the current system, which gives firearms training to every officer.

The new-look "transport enforcement officers" proposal will effectively be a return to the separate traffic control force that patrolled the country's roads in black-and-white cars until the early 1990s.

Should there be specialist traffic enforcement officers?