What is it? The police make available training for volunteers and provide the kit, ie a speed detector radar device. The volunteers don't work in an area that they know, to avoid any confrontations, and the police maintain a watching brief. The team use the detection device to monitor speeds, at an agreed venue chosen by the local neighbourhood panel. They keep away from the device, so this isn't like a roadblock, and jot down the numbers of vehicles, and the whole lot is then passed to the police. The police then write to the vehicle owner saying, you've been speeding. If recurrences of speeding occur then the police follow up, but the whole point is less about prosecuting but getting people to slow down.
One could say it is a cheap way for the police to operate traffic operations, using unpaid civvies. But given the limited number of police deployed on this sort of activity, it may be worth a go. We'll decide at the next parish council meeting. The Guildhall corner in Whittlesford would get my vote as a location.
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