Drivers say they haven’t seen it yet: Police were armed with a camera



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The invisible surprised some of the people who were going to Klaipeda: the policemen had put the camera on a tripod. Powerful high-resolution optics for highway police patrols help capture some of the rapes invisible to the naked eye.

“Instead of a speedometer called a tripod, I saw a camera lens pointing at me. Unfortunately, I did not have time to smile. The officers working in this way have not yet been seen,” the man on his way from Palanga to Klaipeda said. surprised on Friday.

Mindaugas Džermeika, Chief of the Highway Police of the Klaipėda County Chief Police Commissariat, explained that the service under his leadership has received cameras equipped with highly sensitive optics, which record violations of the Road Traffic Rules.

When drivers see a police officer, drivers often become very disciplined: they drop their phone, rush to buckle up, and start following all the rules.

“We, as in other Western European countries, take offenses on unmarked cars. In some cases, the police do it on their own without wearing a uniform. Our camera captures images from a distance of several hundred meters. This allows us to capture the use of the mobile phone by the driver., does not wear a seat belt, etc. The camera helps to demonstrate to the criminal that he really did something wrong, “explained M. Dzermeika.

According to him, in the past, throughout the shift, police officers recorded only a few violations of the rules, now at the same time, 30 to 50 violations.

In addition to the offenses already mentioned, it is common for drivers to maneuver dangerously, do not show a turn signal, to overtake in front of a vehicle in front.

Since spring, 2,363 rapes have been recorded in Klaipeda with the camera. Of these, 262 cases where drivers were not wearing seat belts, 842 times the person on the phone, 540 – drivers were driving at a prohibited traffic light, 187 drivers did not miss people passing the crosswalk .



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