Speeding on a road can result in a ticket which can cost you a ticket for a couple of hundred dollars and even a license suspension. But what happens when the enforcers of these speed limits (read police officers) themselves are caught speeding?
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In the last eight months of 2007, Maryland's Montgomery County's new speed cameras recorded 224 cases in which police vehicles were recorded traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit, according to department records.
Supervisors dismissed 76 of those citations after determining the officers were responding to calls or had valid reasons to break the speed limit.
But that left 148 who didn't have that excuse, and about two-thirds of those citations haven't been paid, said police Lt. Paul Starks.
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I like what the police union has to say about this:"The police union says officers shouldn't pay because the citations are issued to the owner of a vehicle, in this case the county, and not to the driver."
What a good use of the tax payers dollars. Wouldn't you say so?
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