Twenty-five years of law enforcement intensification, limitations on manpower and financial resources, diversification of traffic safety policy in many branches, the emergence of a "traffic safety culture", have refined the problem of law enforcement management and improvement. Considering the French situation, progress seems nowadays to be concerned with reorganisation of existing resources, modernisation and rationalization of road offence management. The experience of some empirical studies on law enforcement research leads at first to stress the weakness of statistical tools and research investment that requires a transition from intensification of policing to rationalization of the same. Major information from criminal statistics and "ad hoc" surveys gives an outlook on certain ways of rationalization, particularly, over the management of time and space strategies. (A)
Samenvatting