Enforcement

Kustom Signals’ fourth generation hand-held video Lidar-based LaserCam 4 is powered by the ProLaser 4 for superior performance and offers greater range to target, faster acquisition time and image resolution of plates at longer distances, providing a comprehensive video record of speed enforcement and target tracking history. The ergonomic and rugged hand-held camera offers different presets for ambient lighting conditions and can be tripod mounted if required. Kustom Signals claims the camera provides i

ANPR camera producer MAV Systems is using Epitex’s infrared LEDs in stand-alone illuminators to capture high definition images of fast moving vehicles at night without distracting drivers. MAV’s managing director Steve Walker, said; “Our customers need the best overview images, night and day, and don’t want to use harsh white light or have to erect expensive additional mounting positions. Combining our intelligent LED pulse driver circuits with Epitex’s infrared LEDs means we can provide clear night-time p

Public safety equipment supplier Kustom Signals has released the next phase of its popular file management system, Eyewitness data vault (EDV). Eyewitness data vault lite (EDV Lite) is specifically designed for smaller installations of Kustom in-car and body-worn video systems that only utilise manual file transfer. EDV Lite offers the same intuitive look and feel as Eyewitness data vault, with an extensive list of powerful and popular features such as file intake, search, play, burn and export, as well

An inter-urban version of Siemens’ SafeZone speed enforcement system has been deployed and switched on in the Netherlands this month to discourage motorists from exceeding 80 kph on two sections of the A13 motorway, the main arterial route between Rotterdam and The Hague. Modified for the Dutch market, the award-winning solution was designed, supplied and installed by Siemens for the Ministry of Justice, Netherlands and will be serviced for a period of eight years. Based on automatic number plate re

Counting the number of people in a vehicle has always been a manual task, but now Xerox has developed a real-time system to automate the process. Xerox has introduced an automated system that determines the number of passengers in a vehicle, enabling authorities to detect non-qualifying drivers using the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) and High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes. Traditionally HOV/HOT enforcement has entailed local police visually confirming each vehicle has the required number of occupants and chasin

More than 3.5 million drivers in 20 US states ran a red light in 2013, according to the second biannual Safer Roads Report 2014: Trends in Red-Light Running from the National Coalition for Safer Roads (NCSR). The report, released today, examines red-light running trends across 20 states and is designed to help raise driver awareness of the dangers of red-light running. The risks of red-light running are clear: intersection-related vehicle accidents caused more than 8,500 causalities in 2011 – the most r

During the sixth German speed control operation North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, police found that motorists generally obeyed speed limits. Around 3,500 police officers and 300 employees of local authorities measured the speeds of vehicles over a period of 24 hours at 2,610 locations. Despite publication of the speed check points and the extensive coverage in the media across the country, 21,600 of the approximately 788,000, or 2.7 per cent, of car drivers checked were driving too fast. On a nor

Testing carried out on D-cop, Intertraff’s radar based speed enforcement camera with the aim with the objective of accurately verifying how D-cop measures the speed of vehicles showed an average error 0.0001 per cent at speeds up to 242.47 km/h. A Porsche S was used for the test at the Porsche Engineering speed track in Apulia, Italy by TÜV Italy, part of the TÜV SÜD group, an independent certification and testing body providing certification services for quality, energy, environment, safety and products

On 4 March 2013, Redflex Holdings announced a summary of its four-month long, independent, internal investigation into its subsidiary’s (RTSI) Chicago contract and associated matters and announced the departure of several US employees for violating company policies and the adoption of enhanced compliance activities, concluding that some of the activities “would likely be considered bribery by the authorities”. Today, the US Department of Justice arrested John Bills, a former employee of the City of Chica