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I just posted that in "Traffic Light Cameras" thread. so it must be true.. ;)

 

Here's an interesting point. If you get nicked by one of the vans, you need to immediately check

 

who the operator of the camera was, because if he was a civilian operator you can contest it on the grounds

 

that he is "not a police officer and therefore has no powers to collect evidence of a crime". :thumbs: :thumbs:

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If that were true, things like private CCTV footage could never be used as evidence and thus rendered pointless. Nor witness statements for that matter, unless the witness just happened to be a passing police officer.

 

Anyone can collate "evidence" of a crime. Whether it's considered admissible in a court of law depends entirely on the validity of the "evidence" itself, not who collected it. So, no, that's not true.

 

That said, things like speed cameras require training and type approval to be operated "properly" so there's a possibility of getting any evidence collected by a random guy sat in a police van classed as insufficient evidence due to the possibility of misuse of the equipment.

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Civilian employees are used to collect evidence all the time - scenes of crime officers are now pretty much all civilians, in GMP anyway. If the guy is operating the speeding camera (which is not a crime just a road traffic offence) then I would suggest he will have been trained for it and was therefore carrying out a legitimate activity unlike the balloon trying to upset him for no apparent reason.

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