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Documents show police used outdated speed cameras
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English - August 18, 2022 20:24 - 4 minutes - 3.79 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Documents say the country's speed cameras were already a few years old when police put them in - and are now so ineffective they miss catching alot of drivers. The old cameras range from 75 percent to a whopping 1500 percent less effective than new high-tech ones. Though they were installed between nine and seven years ago, police actually bought them well before that, and they "were likely developed a further 10-20 years before that". This is revealed in a summary of a confidential due diligence report by accounting firm PWC to the Transport Agency late last year. The worst performing cameras are those used against red-light runners; they snap just one offender where a new one would snap 15.