Operation Snap: It's not just police to watch out for on Wiltshire's roads
Operation Snap lets us send footage of road offences to the police
A Police operation in Wiltshire which allows us to send in dashcam footage of road offences is holding dangerous drivers to account.
Operation Snap had seen 80 drivers prosecuted in the last 12 months and 120 people sent on driving retraining courses.
Justice Traffic Manager at Wiltshire Police, Caroline West, told Greatest Hits Radio that it's making a big impact.
"One of the three priorities of our Chief Constable is safer public spaces," Caroline said, adding that the empowerment of the public is helping increase road safety.
The team works independently of the Roads Policing Unit, assessing offences such as jumping traffic lights, middle lane hogging, using a mobile phone whilst driving and passing too closely to cyclists.
And with one in six cars now fitted with a dashcam, Caroline said it's not just the Police we have to look out for.
"It is those other drivers around," she said, adding: "When you're on the motorway and those three cars in front of you and those three cars behind you, they could have a dashcam."
Caroline said they will look to have drivers retrain rather than secure other convictions.
"120 people have had driver retraining courses, those 120 people possibly haven't had any training like the rest of us, since they took their test and that can be 10, 20, 30 years ago," she said.
And as we build up years of experience on the roads, our skills aren't necessarily improving in the same way as our cars and roads are being moved forward.
Caroline explained that the introduction of Smart Motorways and other technologies in cars mean our driving skills could be getting left behind.
"We've had a lot of positive feedback from driver retraining courses," she said, continuing: "We've had people go on a course after saying 'I don't need to go on the course', and they've come back saying it's brilliant."
Caroline is urging us to continue sending them footage of potential road offences to keep making Wiltshire's roads a safe journey.