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Defiant Brunstrom calls for more cameras

Aug 16 2004

By Steve Bagnall, Daily Post

 

Richard Brunstrom

CONTROVERSIAL chief constable Richard Brunstrom has admitted traffic cops hide behind signs and walls to catch speeding bikers.

And he wants more roadside cameras to snap motorists who break the limit on North Wales roads.

The comments by the region's top cop have provoked anger from anti-speed camera campaigners, who claim they do nothing for road safety .

Mr Brunstrom said North Wales Police were already taking advantage of new rules, which are only in draft form, to catch speeding bikers on the A5 in North Wales.

He said: "We are hiding behind road signs and walls. We are not trying to trick people but we are saying: 'You don't know where we will be'."

The head of road policing for the Association of Chief Police Officers admitted Britain's existing 6,000 cameras had failed to cut the overall death rate.

"We have got cameras at all the identifiable hotspots and yet deaths haven't gone down because they are happening elsewhere," he said.

Yesterday his comments were attacked by the Association of British Drivers.

 
 

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