Speeding motorists targeted by volunteers

Community Speed Watch volunteers target speeding vehicles

SUSSEX Police has entrusted volunteers with a brand new speed gun in a bid to crackdown on speeding motorists.

Worthing Community Speed Watch targeted speeding hotspots including Terringes Avenue, Salvington Hill, Southdownview Road, Findon Road, Grand Avenue, Marine Drive and Marine Crescent in its first week with the gun.

PCSO Eddie Mitchell said: “It was a success. Sussex Police is having a lot of funding reduced at the moment. It’s really for the community to be able to assist in reducing the speed of vehicles in Worthing.”

Mr Mitchell said that speeding is usually a key priority at neighbourhood panel meetings.

“This scheme actively involves members of the community in doing something for themselves,” he said. “If we find the sites have a high number of speeding vehicles we will go down and conduct speed enforcement on those sites.”

The introduction of the gun coincided with a European-wide speed enforcement campaign co-ordinated by the European Traffic Police Network (TISPOL).

Vehicles caught speeding will be issued with a warning letter informing them they have been caught and police action could be taken if repeat offences are filed. Their details are also uploaded to Sussex Police’s Operation Crackdown database.