Today Tonight 30/08/2011..Video Speed Cameras

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The future of law enforcement is here, in the shape of the most sophisticated speed camera of all time. The unbeatable money-making machine for the Government will be rolled out en mass across the country.

According to Queensland Superintendent Paul Fogate the Tru-cams are fast, efficient and unavoidable.

“By the time you see it being operated by a person, you would have been detected - it's anywhere anytime,” Fogate said.

In three hours, the very least this camera can make, at the lowest infringement rate, is $20,000 - that's $110 a minute.

The Tru-cam can also go where other speed cameras can’t - like inner city streets, where in the past the reflection of buildings has proved an accuracy killer. Now, with high definition video, it makes no mistake of your number plate, or who’s behind the wheel.

Once rolled out they will make the State's consolidated revenue cash registers ring, and gone will be the days of expensive court challenges to dispute fines.

“All of those loopholes? Forget about it. They don't exist anymore,” motoring engineer John Cadogan said.

Despite the criticism that you won’t know you've been pinned until you receive the fine in the mail, Chair of Road Safety Rapheael Grzebieta believes that long term the cameras will change driver behaviour, and reduce the number of police pursuits.

“We certainly know that police chasing drivers is a high risk situation, both to the driver and to the police. We've had numerous coronial inquiries into such deaths, as a result of police chasing speedsters,” he said.

“There's been a war on speeding drivers in every state it’s been going on for years and the technology keeps getting better and this is the best there is,” Cadogan concluded.