Weird speed camera scenario

[Rotty]

Bit earlier this morning on an internal road of East Midlands airport (apparantly they are public roads)

Copper at side or road with hand held speed camera. Pretty sure not anpr

Was quite an old style camera

Local police website that lists location has no mention of this road

All very odd as it was a strange place, not tripod mounted and not a recognised traffic police car (BMW x1)

Any thoughts?

 

[Rotty]

We're you speeding?
Andi.

No idea

 

[Rotty]

Could be fuddy duddy central patrol. We have them in local villages. Their anger for speed is only bettered by their anger for the sound of speed....even when you're not speeding. Had a few run ins with them and not once have I been carrying excess speed at point of said run in!

Aren't they usually not coppers though?

Just wondering if it was the airport police either putting a visible presence up or maybe pulling folks over at daft speeds

The camera he was using didn't seem to one that records

 

[Rotty]

Yep.

If it is around an airport it could be security

the car was a genuine cop car but according to Leicester police site their speed camera work is vans

 

[Rotty]

Local speed wombles. Your supposed to go past them within the speed limit, but making as much noise as possible. They love it.

I'm sure they do

what do you mean by "local speed wombles"

 

[Rotty]

All forces have handheld speed detection devices too though.

As for the X1:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/s11aun/36378278272/

yes but it seemed a very odd place to be using it and the fact that the hand held doesn't record means there are usually other cops near by stopping people

also you expect them to be used by traffic division cars

 

[Rotty]

this is basically an industrial estate on the airport that acts as a cargo centre

 

[Rotty]

if you look at this

https://flyawaysimulation.com/images/downloadshots/8626-emid-fsx-2010zip-4-east-midlands-airport.jpg

its the road below "east apron" running left to right

 

[Rotty]

or maybe the one running left to right under "a3"

 

[Rotty]

speed gun looked like this one

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/BKMHM9/bri...-held-speed-camera-in-a-30mph-zone-BKMHM9.jpg

 

[Rotty]

Was it the road that goes past TNT? If so they used to do speed checks there reasonably often when I worked there

yes, was going to ask you about it

are they normal cops? they only had a handheld device with no sign of any recording equipment

 

[Rotty]

cheers, just odd that its not a location listed on their safety camera site and they had no recording equipment, maybe they were pulling folks at the time

 

[Rotty]

yes, not seen a stand alone hand held for year, there always used to be other plod down the road to stop folks when they did