19 Aug 2022

Documents show police used outdated speed cameras

From Morning Report, 8:24 am on 19 August 2022

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.