VICTORIA AU POLICE INTENTIONALLY EXCLUDE DEATH COUNT to make Speed scameras look "good".  THE POLICE LIED!

Ban the Cams Note, UK police were busted UNDERREPORTING Injury Accidents by British Medical Journal not that long ago.  http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/28/2851.asp

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NMAA/message/38428  (also:  http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ipad/victoria-police-exclude-72-deaths-in-record-low-road-toll/story-fn6bfm6w-1226088420032

Victoria Police exclude 72 deaths in 'record' low road toll
Keith Moor
From: Herald Sun
July 06, 2011 12:00AM

A change in how decisions are made about which deaths are included in the road toll affected the final number.
Source: AFP

POLICE excluded more than 70 deaths from Victoria's road toll last year before declaring it a record low.

Victoria Police did not tell the State Government it had not included 72 other deaths, amounting to 25 per cent of its claimed record low toll of 287 fatalities.

Road safety strategies - including saturation use of speed cameras - were credited with helping to achieve the milestone.

There is no suggestion police manipulated the statistics by not revealing how many deaths they excluded.

But an analysis by the Herald Sun shows a change in how decisions are made about which deaths are included in the toll meant that substantially more deaths were written off last year than in previous years.

All Australian police forces exclude some road deaths, but far more were left off Victoria's toll than elsewhere.

Last year was the first time Victoria Police's road fatality review panel made all the decisions on which deaths to include in the official toll.

The Herald Sun has discovered the review panel excluded 30 deaths after deciding the crashes had resulted from natural causes - mainly heart attacks.

Police wiped off another 17 fatalities on the grounds they were intentional deaths, such as suicides. And 25 more were excluded after being declared off-road crashes.

Police Association secretary Greg Davies expressed concern about the big number of exclusions.

"If it's an authorised and recognised methodology, then that's fine," he said.

"But it's difficult to reconcile someone being charged with exceeding .05 while driving in a paddock, but not counting the death of their passenger as part of the road toll."

Victoria's top traffic cop, Kieran Walshe, said the force was not required to make the number of excluded deaths public, and defended the integrity of the review panel.

"Suggestions Victoria Police is excluding fatalities for anything less than legitimate reasons is a distortion of the facts," Mr Walshe said.

"There is a high degree of independence governing our processes."

He said the review panel comprised "a number of specialist experts who must unanimously agree if a fatality is to be excluded from the road toll."

Before the panel was formed, in 2009, a senior traffic officer decided which deaths to exclude. Only 46 deaths were excluded in both 2007 and 2008.

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