After the EB-detection: Now Søren Pape in the matter

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After Ekstra Bladet yesterday could reveal that the police fotovogne in the modest scale keeps the located there, which is actually in serious accidents due to speed, yesterday the minister of justice, mr Søren Pape Poulsen is now involved in the case.

- Fotovogne must not be placed too, that can just print the maximum possible fines. On the contrary, it is about road safety and citizens ' security. It may not be up for discussion.

- If it is such, fotovognene is used, then it must be corrected. Therefore, I have asked that it be taken up with the police's senior management today, writes Søren Pape Poulsen in an email response through his press office.

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Ekstra mapping of the use by the police fotovogne in 2016 and 2017 shows, among other things, that the police fotovogne last twice as many hours in it, one usually refers to as an urban, compared with how often they keep on a-roads.

Færdselssikkerheds-the commission concluded in a report in 2013 that 75 percent of the fatal accidents where speed is a factor, it happens on the highways. Therefore, the subject is now to be reversed among the police's top leadership, writes the minister.

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the Police got in 2015 added 75 new fotovogne, and since the revenues from fines as also set one record after another with a total of 871 million kroner in the printed fines last year.

However, the number of persons killed in traffic remained relatively stable since 2012. The extra fotovogne was otherwise bought into, with the primary purpose that they should reduce the number of killed and seriously injured on the roads.

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Fotovognene was also foretold a great effect by, among others, the Council for Safe Traffic.

- They have tremendous importance (fotovogne, ed.). Experience from abroad shows that we can expect to reduce the serious injuries by between 20 and 25 percent - thus it is something of the most effective, when you want to reduce the number of people injured or killed in traffic, then dokumentationschef and current senior adviser in the Council for Safe Traffic Jesper Sølund for TV2 1. February 2015.

In 2014, i.e. the year before the extra 75 fotovogne was taken in use, came in 1797 persons seriously injured in road traffic - compared with last year it is a decrease of 2.2 percent, while the number of deaths has declined by 3.8 percent from 2014 to 2017.

Whether it was a good, old-fashioned, misjudgment, or the police not have used them for the intended purpose, is unknown.