One of the leading guidelines of the ESCAPE project was to address traffic law enforcement issues at a practical level and to propose potential solutions with a good chance of being accepted by enforcement professionals. Therefore, each of the workpackages in the project included some form of direct interaction with enforcement professionals (or “user groups”) from police forces, justice departments, ministries of transport, road authorities or other agencies involved in traffic law enforcement (TLE). The interactions took the form of personal interviews with officials in several countries, structured survey questionnaires sent to officials previously contacted in person and formal international workshops with participants from TLE agencies and ESCAPE researchers. Following the Nice workshop, a separate workshop with professionals was organised in Brno, the Czech Rep., which focused on TLE issues in CEE countries. The present report summarised the consultations activities with professionals and the knowledge gained in the process. The appendices contain a description of the Brno workshop, which was not reported elsewhere, and survey forms used to solicit opinions of professionals. (Author/publisher) For an overview off all working papers and deliverables of the ESCAPE project, see http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/proj6/escape/deliver.htm
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