The 24-hour automatic surveillance that began on Wednesday, 21 August 2019 at 6 AM was mainly carried out with 19 camera vehicles. The marathon took 144 surveillance hours and resulted in approximately 2,500 photographs. The vehicle surveillance focused on approximately 30,000 drivers.
Last year’s corresponding surveillance used 22 vehicles that took 2,400 photographs.
According to Chief Superintendent Heikki Ihalainen from the National Police Board, the surveillance focused on the morning commute and traffic in the vicinity of schools and daycare centres.
Approximately 1,000 drivers were speeding during the commute between 6 AM and 8 AM.
An important theme of the speed enforcement marathon was to consider speed limits in areas where schoolchildren are around.
“We do this surveillance all the time. We hope that in the end, the surveillance will result in people driving according to the speed limit while considering pedestrians,” says Chief Superintendent Heikki Ihalainen.
Surveillance was also carried out with fixed automatic surveillance for 2,800 hours. Approximately 4,600 photographs were taken with both forms of automatic surveillance.
Most, i.e. 4,300, of the speeding incidents exceeded the speed limit by no more than 15 km/h. Speeding that exceeded the speed limit by more than 16 km/h happened in approximately 300 cases.
