Ex-cop sells speed camera
detector
From Manchester News
By Unknown
October 30, 2003
For 10 years,
Glyn Worsley was a constable with Greater Manchester Police.
Now he sells a hi-tech machine
that warns drivers of speed cameras ahead.
But, according to 44-year-old
Glyn, the radar detectors which bleep when motorists approach a radar-triggered
speed camera do not simply help people avoid the dreaded three points
and £60 fine while treating the roads as a race track.
Instead Glyn, who admits he
used to drive too fast on the roads himself, says they make motorists
safer, slower and more responsible.
Glyn works for Bolton-based
firm Cometech, which sells the radar detectors.
At first he was completely against
the device, which is powered by the car battery and plugs into the
cigarette lighter.
But after trying it out he realised
that he was actually driving more slowly and safely as a result of
anticipating the beep of the machine. He said: "At first I had
my police head on and was completely against the idea of the detectors.
"But my partner, who often
commented that I drove too fast, pointed out that I was generally
driving slower as a result of having the machine on."
Now he says he won't go anywhere
without one and insists his customers are respectable people, not
boy racers desperate to avoid the law.
He also believes that it is
reckless driving rather than going a little over the current limit
which is the main cause of accidents and fatalities.
He said: "One of my customers
is 80, and about 40 per cent are women. There has to be something
wrong when about seven out of 10 normally law-abiding people will
admit to speeding."
The use of the £349 scanners
was outlawed by the Wireless and Telegraphy Act of 1949, but a Queen's
Bench divisional court judgement in January, 1998, found that the
Act did not preclude their use.
