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[STEMO]

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-9013677/Police-forces-begin-using-generation-speed-guns-UK-roads.html

[Sir Tigger KC]

Most Police forces don't have the manpower to send officers out on the side of the road with these sort of gadgets as they are fully occupied with things like trawling Twitter for folk who might have written something slightly edgy or they are going round student houses counting how many people are in there smoking weed and ascertaining whether they should be smoking their weed there or elsewhere because of Covid regulations! 

Oh and then there's the ones patrolling pubs to make sure people leave when they have finished their scotch egg! 

[STEMO]

Most Police forces don't have the manpower to send officers out on the side of the road with these sort of gadgets as they are fully occupied with things like trawling Twitter for folk who might have written something slightly edgy or they are going round student houses counting how many people are in there smoking weed and ascertaining whether they should be smoking their weed there or elsewhere because of Covid regulations! 

Oh and then there's the ones patrolling pubs to make sure people leave when they have finished their scotch egg! 

Or busy robbing buying donuts. 

[Nick W]

Most Police forces don't have the manpower to send officers out on the side of the road with these sort of gadgets as they are fully occupied with things like trawling Twitter for folk who might have written something slightly edgy or they are going round student houses counting how many people are in there smoking weed and ascertaining whether they should be smoking their weed there or elsewhere because of Covid regulations! 

Which is why the camera vans are staffed by civilians. There's little point in having an expensive policeman taking photos of people speeding

[Sir Tigger KC]

Most Police forces don't have the manpower to send officers out on the side of the road with these sort of gadgets as they are fully occupied with things like trawling Twitter for folk who might have written something slightly edgy or they are going round student houses counting how many people are in there smoking weed and ascertaining whether they should be smoking their weed there or elsewhere because of Covid regulations! 

Which is why the camera vans are staffed by civilians. There's little point in having an expensive policeman taking photos of people speeding

The article says that they are training PCSO's to operate these cameras, and I remember that when PCSO's first appeared there was much criticism that it was policing on the cheap.

Criticism well founded it appears. 

[STEMO]

Most Police forces don't have the manpower to send officers out on the side of the road with these sort of gadgets as they are fully occupied with things like trawling Twitter for folk who might have written something slightly edgy or they are going round student houses counting how many people are in there smoking weed and ascertaining whether they should be smoking their weed there or elsewhere because of Covid regulations! 

Which is why the camera vans are staffed by civilians. There's little point in having an expensive policeman taking photos of people speeding

The article says that they are training PCSO's to operate these cameras, and I remember that when PCSO's first appeared there was much criticism that it was policing on the cheap.

Criticism well founded it appears. 

Plastic Community Support Officers.


Just kidding, they do a fine job.

[Nick W]

The article says that they are training PCSO's to operate these cameras, and I remember that when PCSO's first appeared there was much criticism that it was policing on the cheap.

Criticism well founded it appears. 

The real problem is that there needed to be a clear line between a PCSO's responsibilities and those of a PC. It also needed to be rigidly enforced. Neither of those things happened, unsurprisingly, and the dilution began.