Police motorcycle speed camera?

[Baz2000]

I was driving home from work through a 30 and at the side of the road (hiding in an un-used pull in thing) was a police motorcycle. The bike was side facing to the road and the officer was standing on one side, there seemed to be something on the bike with him behind it but couldn't work it out. Would this likely to be a speed camera? I'm unsure whether police bikes have camera's or just radars to show the speed.

Annoyingly the part of the road is about 100yds before a 40 zone.

Edited by Baz2000 on Saturday 12th April 22:46

[surveyor]

I've seen Scamera's operate from bikes with tripods.

[SV8Predator]

No scam here, the OP's admitted he was speeding.

[Puddenchucker]

Baz2000 said:

Would this likely to be a speed camera?

Quite possibly:

[mel]

Bloody hell, the 1990's are calling and want their Police Bike back.

[Baz2000]

Puddenchucker said:

Quite possibly:

He wasn't behind the bike like in the photo but by the side in front of the seat looking at the on coming traffic. I couldn't see if he was looking into something, could the cameras rest on the seat?

[GSP]

I saw one in derby yesterday, and was equally surprised.

It was a fair bit of kit on a tripod which left me wondering whether he needed to go after the vehicles he saw speeding... Or whether it was like a van and you got it in the post.

I wasn't speeding but a lot of people were and clearly didn't nice him.

[0000]

Could well have been. About 8 years ago I picked up a few points from a policeman by a bike. Dual carriageway, a Sunday morning before 8am, he was setup behind a pile of road cones moved out of the way that apart from the glistening new tarmac and temporary limit signs were the only mark of there having been roadworks in previous months. I was done for about 50mph in a 40 zone that was 70 the next time I used the road. Never seen a policeman by a bike at the side of the road before or since.

[Dicky Knee]

The ones the Police motorcyclists use in Essex are about the size of a video camera which they have to hold up to their eye as you approach. They use them on the A12 at Ingatestone quite a bit. They must take an image of some kind as there doesn't ever seem to be another Police vehicle further up the road to pull people over.

[Russellely]

Baz2000 said:

(hiding in an un-used pull in thing) ]

hiding + police = speed camera trap

[RizzoTheRat]

If it's anything like the ones Wiltshire constabulary were using some years ago, it looks like a video camera on a tripod and has a laser/radar speed gun built in. They then send you a password to log in to their website and see the picture.

[Terminator X]

There's a grey "unmarked" car locally with just police marked on the bonnet and they get the smallest tripod and camera out that you've ever seen; quite frightening to behold as you can see nothing until you're right on it. No worries for 99% of posters in this section though of course.

TX.

[NPI]

Baz2000 said:

I was driving home from work through a 30 and at the side of the road (hiding in an un-used pull in thing) was a police motorcycle.

Drove past one the other day exactly as described above, holding a hand-held speed gun. He was quite a way back off the road standing in the shadow of a wall - the kind of people who drive fixated on the bit of road right in front of them would probably not have seen him even as they drove past.