Community speedwatch

Community Speedwatch is a traffic monitoring scheme that is co-ordinated by the Police and Buckinghamshire County Council but managed and run by volunteers in a community.

The volunteers are trained to use a detection device to monitor the speeds of vehicles travelling through their local area.

The registration number of speeding vehicles is recorded.

Warning letters are then sent out by the Police to the registered keepers stating that their vehicle has been reported as speeding. Locations for monitoring speed are selected from sites suggested by the community, based on where there is most local concern about speeding traffic, or the impact of speed.

Volunteers will be issued with high visibility jackets and roadside mobile signs, which must be displayed to notify motorists that they are entering a Community Speedwatch area.

Community Speedwatch can only operate in areas subject to a speed limit no greater than 40mph.

Letters will be sent to offenders by the Thames Valley Police. The first letter is a warning letter. The second is a stronger letter. Further detected speeding will result in enforcement by the Police.

For more information about starting a scheme please contact your local Neighbourhood Police Officer via the Thames Valley Police call centre number 08458 505505