The police's new radar – 760 speeders have been caught in the north: "Measuring all the time"

The equipment began to be used in March this year and is still a test. But the idea is that the technology should be deployed sharply and be in all police emergency vehicles.

- We are satisfied with how it works. It affects our work in such a way that we will make speed measurements all the time during our work shift. We notice that we take a lot of speeders, says Johan Löfstedt.

Video game-like screen

The police have three different measuring systems to measure speed. Average speed measurement, which reads speed between two points, the laser meter and now – the radar.

The radar measures forward from the police car, the range is approximately 200 meters, and then registers both ahead and oncoming traffic, which are displayed on a video game-like screen in the police car.

Want to get more people to slow down

Johan Löfstedt points out that the purpose of the measurements is not to collect money for the state, but to get more people to reduce the speed in traffic.

During the test period, the last two months, 768 speeders have been reported using the new technology in Police Region North, i.e. Västerbotten, Norrbotten, Västernorrland and Jämtland.

- Just with the car in Umeå, we have reported 200 speeders and taken 29 driving licences. And then you have driven more than 31 kilometers too fast, says Johan Löfstedt.