Mike retired from the Humberside Police in 1996 having completed 31 years service, during which time he served in a number of departments, but for 25 years, he read and lectured on all subjects in Traffic Legislation, running patrol officer courses within the force as well as courses for the Institute of Road Transport Engineers and Certificate of Professional Competence courses for the Road Haulage Industry.

In 1984 he specialised further in three areas, Agricultural Vehicles, Tachographs and the Carriage of Dangerous Substances.

In respect of Agricultural Vehicles along side the NFU he has become the authority in the country and travels extensively lecturing on the subject to various organisations including the NFU, Agricultural Colleges, Police Forces, Department of Transport, agricultural organisations including the Royal Estates at Windsor, and agricultural vehicle manufacturers both in this country and abroad, including JCB, John Deere, Massey Ferguson and BAGMA.

In respect of Tachographs, he is a qualified analyst. During 1997 and 1998 was a Beta Tester for a computer analysing programme now used by the enforcement agencies.

For a number of years he has analysed tachoghraph charts for police court cases and also for a number of small companies.

Since 1986 he has run Certificate of Professional Competence courses at the York College of Technology as well as for a private organisation, and since 1999 he has both written and marked examination papers for OCR the examining body in this subject. He now runs CPC Courses privately in the York area at very competative rates.

Since 1999 he has also been running courses for the Department of Transport on the subject of the Carriage of Dangerous Substances.

Mike has a library of traffic legislation at home and is willing to help with any traffic related problems. Should your company require advise in respect of any of the above subjects, don’t hesitate give him a ring.