SPEED cameras mounted on police motor bikes will be patrolling the roads of North Wales from April. Last month the Daily Post revealed North Wales Police was applying to the Home Office for £40,000 to adapt two motorbikes to carry cameras for the Arrive Alive campaign. The application has now been approved and the motor-bikes will be introduced in the spring. Arrive Alive spokeswoman Beth Mitcheson said the adapted motorbikes would allow officers to get closer to accident spots. The bikes may also be able to monitor areas which are currently designated as being speed camera spots. She said: "With the van it is quite difficult to find some-where to park it close to where the accidents have been taking place. "These bikes will be able to park where it safe for both the officer and road users to do so. The camera will be placed on a pole to the rear of the bike and officers will be dressed in yellow jackets, which make them highly visible." But campaigners last night blasted the move claiming the bikes would be less visible than the current vehicles used in the controversial anti-speeding campaign. North Wales Motorist Group spokesman Mike Cross said: "What is the object of these bikes? It will simply make the situation worse. It will simply allow officers to park their vehicles in even more danger-ous places." He added members of the group, which met senior police officers to discuss the Arrive Alive campaign earlier this month, said they were concerned North Wales Police was concentrating their efforts in the wrong places. "Officers should spend their time concentrating on the small minority of people who break the speed limit rather than blanketing an area and prosecuting everyone," he said. Last month the Daily Post revealed villagers at Pentrefoelas were campaigning for a fixed speed camera to be installed before "somebody is killed" by speeding motorists. There is currently a 40mph speed limit in the village but residents claim it does not act as a deterrent to motorists driving over the limit. Last year, 18 bikers were killed on the region's roads, the highest figure ever. | 
