The would-be attackers left the town but were stopped by a traffic police officer on the M1 motorway for having no car insurance.

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Retired Northumbria Police traffic officer Keith Lamb, who was a former colleague of PC Rathband, told the inquest he identified his body at Wansbeck District Hospital.

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Suffolk Police traffic management officer Steve Griss had opposed the plans to introduce the 20mph limits at Middleton and Fressingfield, which could become part of the pilot scheme shortly.

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And then one of the most remarkable experiences was, I was driving along and I saw a Chicago police officer directing traffic in the middle of Manhattan, sent here by Mayor Daley of Chicago, who was a good friend of ours, and is.

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And in 1989, a block from the arcade where Johnson was slain, Clement Anthony Lloyd was shot dead on his motorcycle by a Colombian-born police officer after a routine traffic stop.

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"If there is a police officer who is standing behind a barricade watching runners go by from Italy and Ethiopia, I would like to have that police officer at intersections on Staten Island where there still aren't working traffic lights, " Mr. Oddo said.

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