On Tuesday, Coquitlam RCMP welcomed Const. Scarecrow, who police say will be part of a new plan to crack down on speeding drivers.
Const. Scarecrow, if you haven’t guessed, is a metal poster-board cutout of a police officer holding a radar gun that will be placed across the city.
Get breaking National news
Police hope most drivers won’t notice Const. Scarecrow isn’t a real officer and a two-dimensional image of a police officer may be enough to encourage drivers to slow down.
Driver behaviour will be monitored by high-tech devices that will be installed wherever Const. Scarecrow is on patrol.
That data will be collected and crunched to determine if the initiative is working.
Costing $500 apiece, police hope the cutouts will be a cost-effective way to improve road safety and save lives.
— With files from Sarah MacDonald
- Shooting at Rhode Island ice rink kills 2 during youth hockey game: police
- Anti-feminist ideology ‘increasingly relevant’ to national security: CSIS
- Savannah Guthrie issues new plea for mother’s return as police clear family
- Tumbler Ridge shooting fuels misinformation about trans people, organization says
Comments
Comments closed.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.
Please see our Commenting Policy for more.