Peters Township Lobbying for Radar Speed Enforcement
Peters Township Council wants its police officers to be able to use radar to catch speeders.
Peters Township Council voted Monday night to ask state lawmakers to allow municipal police departments to use radar to catch speeders. Pennsylvania is one of the only states in the country that does not let local police to use radar while on patrols. Instead, police officers are required to track cars using stopwatches as they travel through white timing lines. Peters Township Manager Mike Silvestri said that makes it tougher for police departments in this area with winding and shorter roads. “We’ve done the resolution in the past and always been supportive of police being able to do radar,” Silvestri said. “Especially in communities like Peters where you have short roads and curves. It would be a lot easier than using the timing devices…
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joe
10:11 am on Wednesday, April 24, 2013
I wonder if our police department would have a policy in place to handle this ? It has a history of lack of policy and or plans ? The example would be the situation when we had a bomb threat to the middle school, no policy or plan in place for that.why would we give them this tool or power with no oversite ? more ›