Product Description

Roadcraft is the official Police Drivers Handbook and is used by the police to train police. It is also the recognised bible for advanced and emergency response driver training and essential reading for driving instructors and any driver wishing to improve their skills and safety to a more advanced level. Roadcraft aims to help people become better drivers by increasing awareness of all factors that affect driving the capability of the driver, characteristics of the vehicle, and the road and traffic conditions. Roadcraft has been fully revised and redesigned to include current best practice in police driving and learning design. It incorporates the best parts of the older editions with the latest knowledge in this rapidly developing field. Roadcraft has been prepared in close consultation with a working group of senior police driving instructors and other police and civilian advance driver training experts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1026 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Synopsis
"Roadcraft" is the official Police Driver's Handbook and is used by the police service to train police drivers. It is also the recognised 'bible' for advanced and emergency response driver training and essential reading for driving instructors and any driver wishing to improve their skills and safety to a more advanced level. "Roadcraft" aims to help people become better drivers by increasing awareness of all factors that affect driving, such as the capability of the driver, characteristics of the vehicle, and road and traffic conditions."Roadcraft" has been fully revised and redesigned to include current best practice in police driving and learning design. It incorporates the best parts of the older editions with the latest knowledge in this rapidly developing field. "Roadcraft" has been prepared in close consultation with a working group of senior police driving instructors and other police and civilian advance driver training experts.The first new edition in 10 years, it has been updated to reflect recent changes in the legislative framework surrounding driving and emergency response driving and new methodologies in teaching safe driving.

It now also incorporates information on automotive engineering advances such as ABS and SatNav devices and their effect on driving. A new chapter has been added to teach drivers the physical and psychological aspects of driving, and how to develop mental skills to become a better driver.This edition of "Roadcraft" has been approved by the Association of Chief Police Officers, which is satisfied that it reflects current best practice in police driver instruction and takes into account the relevant views of civilian experts.It features chapter summaries and reviews to reinforce learning plus practical tips and exercises to put the theory into practice. Clearly illustrated throughout, chapters include: mental skills for better driving; observation and anticipation; acceleration, using gears, braking and steering; maintaining vehicle stability; overtaking; and, driving on motorways and multi-lane carriageways. It is endorsed by IAM (Institute of Advanced Motoring) and ROSPA (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents). It supersedes ISBN 0113408587.

About the Author
National Police Driving Schools Conference Roadcraft Working Party, Police Foundation, National Extension College. Editorial Team: Philip Coyne (author), Penny Mares (editor) and Bill Mayblin (designer/ illustrator)

Customer Reviews

A book for every good driver
Don't be fooled by the new cover on the most recent issue of Roadcraft. This book is not just for Advanced Police drivers but for everyone who has a keen interest in driving and for driving safely. As a traffic cop myself it is the bible for all the courses, however, it also takes drivers who have passed the DVLA standard test and through very well laid out sections, teaches them a whole different approach to their driving.

Without giving too much away, it teaches drivers to adopt a proven system of car control which WILL improve anticipation and observation skills dramatically amongst many other things.

A very worthwhile read indeed.

The Police Driver's Handbook
For anybody interested in motoring, it gives an insight into advanced driving techniques. For those of us who passed their driving test when Adam was a lad, it is well worth a read. An excellent and well written book.

Excellent
A very necessary book to take u on from the basic test. Do not think that this will teach u all the art of high speed driving and fast car attitudes as it wont. But stops short for obvious reasons so u will get as much as legally possible to make u a very well improved driver. This book is used not only by Police driving schools but also international drivers as well. The whole Police advanced course is based and tested on this book u will not go wrong. A good supplement to this is the roadcraft DVD which covers the book visually. I have used this book for over 15 years and highly recommend it.