New laser speed en­force­ment de­vices ca­pa­ble of de­tect­ing speed­ing mo­torists from in­side po­lice ve­hi­cles were launched by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice on Tues­day, as part of ac­tiv­i­ties mark­ing the end of Unit­ed Na­tions Road Safe­ty Week.

The launch took place at the Au­drey Jef­fers High­way lay­by, where Road Safe­ty Co­or­di­na­tor for the TTPS, Sergeant Brent Bat­son, said the new Li­dar de­vices are ex­pect­ed to strength­en en­force­ment ef­forts along high­ways and road­ways across the coun­try.

Sergeant Bat­son said the up­grad­ed tech­nol­o­gy al­lows of­fi­cers to iden­ti­fy speed­ing ve­hi­cles and cap­ture im­ages of reg­is­tra­tion plates at night, when many speed­ing of­fences oc­cur.