Drivers being warned of police camera ahead

At the crack of dawn on Sunday, a team of police traffic officers were setting up one of their new high-tech laser ‘gun’ cameras on its tripod at the side of the road, waiting for cars to start zooming by. It was not long before a motorcyclist came hurtling around the bend and the laser gun fired. The reading? 104kph, 34kph over the limit. The officer using the specialised equipment, signalled to his superior, Inspector Sergio Pisani, who called it in on the radio – alerting a pair of motorcycle officers waiting a few metres up the road to flag down the reckless driver and issue him with a fine. The police operation is a relatively new sight on the roads after the force recently purchased an undisclosed number of the laser guns, which can detect a moving vehicle’s speed from some 2.4 kilometres away. The police traffic section has been setting up the equipment along thoroughfares across the island in recent weeks, nabbing an average of 26 speeding motorist an hour. Mr Pisani told the Times of Malta it was not the police’s intention to try and catch motorists out, but they were only focused on keeping roads safe. “We are not doing this to try and increase revenue through fines.