Policing Distracted Driving: Contemporary Challenges in Roads Policing

Leanne Savigar-Shaw is Senior Lecturer in Policing at Staffordshire University, UK. After completing a BSc and MSc in Psychology, she progressed to a PhD in Criminology focusing upon driver education and mobile phone use by drivers. She has since been involved in a number of research projects concerning mobile phone use by drivers, speeding, road safety, police legitimacy and procedural justice, and has wider research interests in the policing of the roads.

Helen Wells is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Keele, UK. After completing a BA and MA in Criminology, she progressed to a PhD in Criminology focusing on the public debate around the use of speed cameras. Helen has been researching roads policing for over 20 years and has completed funded projects on topics such as ANPR, speed cameras, ’dash cam’ evidence submission, uninsured driving, PCC attitudes to roads policing, and distracted driving.