The Speed Detection Team

Photo: Bob Stanley

The Speed Detection team at Nottingham traffic Wing at around 1987/88. Left to right - Brian Cooper, Pete Metcalfe, John Marsden, front and seated - Bob Stanley.

Nowadays, speed enforcement is carried out by the Nottinghamshire Safety Camera Partnership jointly with Nottinghamshire and city Councils, The highways Authority and the Magistrates Courts Services.

But in the old days roadside speed enforcement was carried out by teams from the Traffic Departments. Working in twos, one officer would monitor the vehicles' speeds with either a Muniquip radar gun or Truvelo (2 sets of wires across the road). He would then use a personal radio to tell his colleague further down the road to stop and report the offending cars. Very time consuming but at least the offending drivers actually spoke with the officers and knew there and then they had been caught as opposed to receiving their notices now through the post some days afterwards.