Police forces using mobile speed cameras to catch other offences

A mobile speed camera van on the A1058 coast road near Tynemouth.
A mobile speed camera van on the A1058 coast road near Tynemouth.

Police forces have been using mobile speed cameras to target other offences such as mobile phone usage or not wearing seatbelts.

The findings come from research conducted via Freedom of Information requests to police forces, and it's discovered that many of them use mobile speed cameras to target other offences. Requests were made by motoring organisation IAM Roadsmart to all 44 forces in the UK, and found 16 of them regularly target seatbelt and mobile phone offences with the mobile speeding stations.

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