VOLUNTEERS TO LOOK OUT FOR SPEEDERS.Byline: Joe Segura Knight-Ridder Newspapers That neighbor crouching behind the hedges may not be pulling weeds but playing traffic cop. Thanks to a program unveiled this week by the Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. Police Department, she could be armed with a radar speed gun. It is all part of an effort to improve traffic safety, giving residents the tools to pinpoint speeders in their neighborhoods. The HBPD's traffic bureau receives about 25 complaints a month from residents concerned and often angry about speeding vehicles going down their streets and the potential hazards to children and adults. With limited resources, traffic officers cannot always respond to each call, the traffic bureau commander, Lt. Bruce Kelly Bruce Kelly (born Bruce Grimes, June 11th, 1956 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American radio personality. He was the original program director, format creator and morning personality on The 80s on 8 from XM Satellite Radio in Washington, D.C. from September 2000 to November 2005. , said Thursday. Under the new Neighborhood Radar Loan Program, at least four radar guns radar gun n. A usually hand-held device that measures the velocity of a moving object by sending out a continuous radio wave and measuring the frequency of reflected waves. will be available for lending to residents, who will be trained in their use, Kelly said. The residents will collect and log information - the license number, vehicle description, speed, date and time of each incident - and forward the data to the traffic bureau. The registered owners Registered Owner An individual or organization to whom certificates are directly issued and who, as a result, is recorded on the corporation's securityholder records (as maintained by the transfer agent). of the offending cars will then be contacted by the bureau. No citations will be given, and the radar-using residents will be cautioned not to detain de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: or contact the speeding drivers. The program is aimed at encouraging voluntary compliance. If repeated problems occur in any particular area, real traffic officers will provide law enforcement, Kelly said. "We're not sure how it's going to be received," Kelly said, adding that the only other program in the state like it - in Riverside - appears to be successful. The first target, Kelly said, will be near an area with an elementary school elementary school: see school. and baseball diamonds. "Your neighbors are now watching," Kelly said. "So behave." |
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