Winnipeg Police Board chair, advocates support expanded photo radar enforcement – Winnipeg [Video]

Winnipeg Police Board chair Markus Chambers wants the province to review its legislation on photo radar, calling the current policy “proscriptive.”

“Looking at the legislation the way it’s written now, it really confines us to technology that is 23, 24 years old,” he said, referring to the Highway Traffic Act. “Looking at the tech we have in place from 2001 with respect to photo enforcement, we definitely have to step it up.”

The Act limits photo radar use to construction, school and playground zones, and intersections controlled by traffic lights. Chambers wants their use expanded to residential neighbourhoods. Updated legislation could also open the door for new technologies that can ticket someone for using their cell phone while driving, and for causing excessive noise with their vehicle.

“It is that force multiplier that we can redeploy resources to other areas in policing and make sure that those concerns are met as well,” he added.

Bourkevale resident Daevid Ramey, who …