A traffic officer is a person with powers relating to the regulation of traffic on roads in Great Britain. In England, they are employed by the Highways Agency and in Wales by the Welsh Assembly Government and are not police officers or members of police forces.
- Highways Agency Traffic Officers (England)
- Welsh Government Traffic Officers (Wales)(Formerly Welsh Assembly Government Traffic Officers)
- Dartford Crossing Traffic Officers
Famous quotes containing the words traffic and/or officer:
“There’s something about the dead silence of an office building at night. Not quite real. The traffic down below is something that didn’t have anything to do with me.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)