Responding to a request by Surrey Police Authority to comment on policing priorities for 2002, the Conservative councillor says that while fully supporting the police's fight against crime and its reassuring of Surrey residents, he believes more priority should be given to the enforcement of traffic regulations, especially speeding.
Mr Munro praised the police for helping to keep Surrey the most crime-free county in England and Wales, but added: "I get constant complaints from residents that traffic laws are simply not being enforced. This particularly applies to speeding.
"In 2000, 70 people died on Surrey's roads and that is simply not acceptable - think of the outcry if they had been murders."
Mr Munro concluded: "Enforcement is not the whole answer - education and building safer roads in the first place obviously play their part. But the police have a role in stopping this annual carnage, and I would urged them to place it higher in their priorities."
Mr Munro urged members of the public to write to the police with their views at Surrey Police, PO Box 412, Guildford GU3 1BR.