Originally Posted by me283

Thanks! Another thing I would like to highlight is the practice of the traffic police (locally at least), to take their mobile camera vans and park them within a few hundred metres of fixed cameras. Being a contrary type, and being miffed at the increase in council tax contributions to the police in spite of appalling standards of servive, I stopped behind one such van and tried to debate this with the PC. During a 45 minute (sometimes heated, on his side) debate, it transpired that they do this because drivers know where the cameras are, so they slow down. "This way", he said, "we catch them anyway". And I thought that drivers slowing down was the whole point of the cameras...