speed guns - do they work at night?

[gonzales]

Just a quickie for you guys.

I may have been clobbered by a speed gun on the way home on friday night. From a legal point of view can these speed guns be used after the sun goes down?

[johnnywb]

I was under the impression that the talivans can't work at night? Not sure why i'm guessing because they can't see the numberplate to aim for?

[cptsideways]

Yes the laser guns work prefectly well at night, though any nightime ones will be operated by plod not the local stazi

[mg6b]

Roads Policing Officer's use them at night. There is no restriction not to do so.

[gonzales]

mg6b said:

Roads Policing Officer's use them at night. There is no restriction not to do so.

Bum. Suppose now I have to wait another 13 days for my NIP to show up then.

[Dwight VanDriver]

As far as Handhelds go, some 18 months ago, a very brave Kent officer decided to use it in the dark, stood on the road at Margate and pointed. He was clobbered and killed by the car driver.

When I was in Office in the early days of HR8 etc I would not permit my lads to use after dark.

I suppose the same would not apply to devices in the back of a van parked clear of the road.

dvd

[pmanson]

Dwight VanDriver said:

I suppose the same would not apply to devices in the back of a van parked well clear of the road hidden behind the relative safety of a hedge/wall.