Despite his dodgy driving record, Roderick Gilchrist loved learning to catch speeding motorists
Like most motorists, I have often wondered unflatteringly about the man behind the speed gun. Do they get a buzz out of it? Or is it just a quota thing – fulfilling performance targets? Now I know, after enrolling as a community Roadwatch volunteer – to give it the official name. It happened after I’d helped two community officers to free an urban fox trapped in the garden of a London square. After congratulating me, they said I was just the kind of responsible citizen they were looking for to join their Roadwatch team. The idea is to release officers for other duties by recruiting London residents to cut down speeding in their neighbourhoods. There were 1,608 deaths in Britain in 2021 – and speed figured in 20 per cent of them. Two and a half million speeding tickets were handed out last year, raking in one and a half...
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