London has introduced five mobile “LaserCam” devices that incorporates the functions of a speed gun and a video camera, in new “hot spot” locations, round the clock.  About 40, 000 of the offences were caught by LaserCam. Several drivers who previously thought they can commit a speeding offence and dodge the cameras were caught speeding. Since last April 443, 609 offences have been recorded by the Met – up. By 64 per cent on the 270, 458 in the same period in the previous year.

NEP compliant end-to-end mobile enforcement LaserCam4, IP55 certified,  approved by the UK Home Office, is a 3.2” colour touchscreen handheld unit capable of working in low-light, weighing just 1.7kg with its  integral eight-hour power supply and can store up to 2000 offences in its internal memory, and easily downloadable via WiFi and compatible with StarTraq and Eros. The Class 1 Eye Safe Laser is effective from 3-750m with a beam divergence of <1mph over a 10-200mph range.

The new speed cameras is additional to the existing hundreds of fixed cameras, provided by the Transport for London Last February as part of Mayor Sadiq Khan’s “Vision Zero” campaign to eradicate road deaths by 2041.

The LaserCam devices collect evidence able to used in court and which avoids the need for the driver to be pulled over by police.

TFL commissioner Andy Lord said “ this new camera highlights the good progress on our commitment to improve safety on our roads and increase the levels of speed enforcement undertaken by the police, building the capacity to enforce up to one million offences per year”.