A N innocuous-looking Morris Isis shooting brake contains the radar speed
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meter now employed by Lancashire County Police to catch speeding drivers.
Col. Eric St. Johnstone, chief constable of Lancashire, contends that the use of this instrument will release police officers to concentrate on crime detection. But, apart from any problematical psychological effect, the new method requires three officers, twcr in plain clothes with the decoy car and another in uniform waiting a quarter of a mile down the road to stop offenders, compared with two under the old system.
Drivers in a hurry, who decide to drive in convoy,. could expose a weakness which would not increase public confidence in the fairness of the .operations, because the meter cannot distinguish -between close-. packed vehicles. The first offenders to be caught by radar will appear in court on Monday,
Wrong Time and Place
AWELL-MEANING looker-on gave a van driver, who had been injured in an accident, a 2-in, tot of whisky. The result was that he was charged with driving while under the influence of drink, But for the evidence of a nurse who was attending to the driver at the time, he might have been convicted.
Apart from the unwisdorn, without medical advice, of treating casualties with alcohol, the moral of this story seems to be; Never accept whisky from a strange man.