Speed cameras catch on-duty cops

A scheme set up by North Wales police to help reduce the number of speeding motorists causing accidents has been so successful it’s even caught and prosecuted 12 police officers!

The scheme was launched last year and targets known accident blackspots with both mobile and fixed speed cameras. It catches up to 4000 speeding motorists each month. But over the last year it has also managed to catch 103 police vehicles going over the speed limit.

82 of the officers exceeding the limit were responding to an emergency call but 12 didn’t have any valid reason for the extra speed. The offending drivers were given three points on their licences and a £60 fine.

The police convictions follow the prosecution earlier this year of an ambulance driver who was caught in the same campaign doing 39mph in a 30 zone. The driver tried to explain that he was shadowing another emergency call but because he was not officially called to the scene he was prosecuted anyway.

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