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Article: Police use [pounds]1,000-an-hour helicopter to trap speeding drivers
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 27, 2008
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A POLICE helicopter targeting speeding motorists at a cost of
[pounds]1,000 an hour has been attacked by campaign groups as
dangerous and expensive.
Drivers breaking the law will be identified by the helicopter's
radar detection service, which is also equipped with the "Skyshout"
public address system to warn drivers they have been caught.
More than 20 signs are being put up in high-risk accident areas
across Essex warning drivers that officers are watching them from
the sky.
But taxpayers' campaign groups said the signs and the use of the
helicopter to trap speeders were a "bizarre" way to spend public
money, while others labelled the scheme "appalling".
The idea was devised by the Essex ...