Summary

In the UK, motorways are patrolled by National Highways Traffic Officers and DVSA Enforcement. These vehicles use high-visibility yellow/black or yellow/green livery. Because Waze currently only offers a "Police" report button, users frequently misreport these agencies as Police.

This results in "False Police" alerts that cause unnecessary braking and degrade the accuracy of actual speed enforcement data.

The Solution

Update the "Report Police" menu (specifically for the UK and relevant regions) to include a sub-option for Traffic Officer/Enforcement.

Proposed Menu Structure:

Report > Police

Visible / Hidden (Law Enforcement)

Traffic Officer / DVSA (Incident Management / Non-Enforcement)

Why this helps Waze:

Reduces "Panic Braking": Drivers won't slam on their brakes for a speed trap when it is actually a Traffic Officer attending a breakdown.

Improves Data Integrity: Prevents the "Police" category from being diluted by non-enforcement vehicles.

Reduces Editor Workload: Community editors currently spend significant time "cleaning" these misreported icons from the map.

Better Situational Awareness: Knowing a Traffic Officer is ahead warns drivers of a potential hazard (breakdown/debris) rather than a speed check.

Supporting Insight (The "Probability Gap"):

To put the scale of this issue into perspective: across the UK, there are approximately 1,500 National Highways Traffic Officers patrolling the motorways daily.

In contrast, a major county like Kent often only has two dedicated motorway-rated RPU (Roads Policing Unit) vehicles on patrol at any given time—one for the North and one for the South. If these units are diverted to incidents in city centres, there may be zero actual police presence on the motorways.

With 1,500 Traffic Officers versus very few actual Police patrols, the "Police" reports on Waze become statistically unreliable. Users see a high-visibility vehicle and instinctively report "Police," leading to a map filled with false positives.

Global Relevance

This is a scalable solution. Other countries that utilise similar Traffic Officer or Incident Management patrols include:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, and the USA.

Thanks for considering this improvement to map accuracy!

People are reporting highway traffic officers as police. They are not the police. Because users are abusing this police report button, it makes you assume the police are not there, then often you get caught out when they are.

Also, mobile speed camera vans are a common issue. We would all prefer if you gave us a mobile speed camera van button so people stop abusing the police button. That way, wazers will know the police prescence ahead is genuine.

Artificial intelligence sealtbelt and mobile phone cameras are in operation across the UK now. You need to add a report system where wazers can identify and report these camera locations so they can be added to the app.

Speed camera warnings need to be more obvious. Please add a flashlight/ screen flash feature which can be enabled optionally so we can have a visual screen warning of a speed camera on the approach.

If possible, add a HGV / Bus Mode to the app to allow truckers to use the app for navigation

In the U.K. we have police and traffic officers and the traffic officers can’t prosecute or pull over car drivers but everyone reports them on Waze as police and it’s really annoying. Can we get an option in the U.K. to report traffic officers as well as police?
Thanks

In addition to the Toll Police, it would be useful to have a feature whereby users could report a Speed camera with three legs.

Police in traffic

I would like to add a toll police icon, because in bulgaria, people reporting in as police.

Hope you make a different type of police like toll, weightbus so people can see which police officer it is.

Hello Waze, is it possible to add an option for TOLL police for Waze Bulgaria? That way we will be able to differentiate where the TOLL police and the standart police is located on the maps which will be benefit of all users.
Thank you.