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Roadcraft: The Essential Police Driver's HandbookThis paper back book is what every new driver taking intensive driving lessons should read as well as the highway code. This doesn't always happen, so if you have been driving for one hour or many years you would still benefit from reading this book. This book is well laid out and of a high quality. Clear in content it is very useful for someone having driving lessons to read it all. All points are illustrated with pictures or diagrams, So if you are training and having driving lessons in London or else where, or doing a crash driving course, it will seem obvious when you read it like all good advice. You will learn how to be a safe driver. How to handle your car and avoid accidents so it will not turn into a driving crash course so to speak, no matter what other drivers are up to otherwise called defensive driving. There are no techniques on police pursuit driving. This is about road driving safely and quickly. Within the law, serious reading if you are going for an advanced driver badge or just having cheap driving lessons and looking to improve yourself quickly. Have a great driving week read it

A book for every good driver

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This book covers all the relevant knowledge required for safe,systematic driving and as the book describes, the safe use of "driving to the system". It helps everyone finally understand why it is their driving that causes accidents and not the vehicles they drive. It covers cornering,steering, use of gears, overtaking (which is legal you know, regardless of people sticking their fingers up at you for doing it and flashing you when you have plenty of room and don't sacrifice anyones safety to do it !), skidding and how to correct it and much more including drivers behaviours and tips on how to generally drive safely (not necessarily slowly !). It enables any driver to observe everything around him, anticipate any hazards before its too late. This book is well worth a read if you are not the most confident of drivers or indeed you have had a few accidents and think you have learnt because the stats in this book will shock you. The only criticism of this book is that to explain a relatively straight forward task, does involve long winded words, which for some people they would find taxing and quite boring. But with a dictionary to hand, you would be fine. If it is used to train police officers, which i think from what i see living in London everyday, it does a good job ! enjoy. AW.