Area law-enforcement receives new RADAR/LIDAR

Area law-enforcement agencies were among these receiving new RADAR and LIDAR speed enforcement devices. The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute is distributing 1,000 new devices among 162 state and local police agencies. The units are being purchased with $1.6 million in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration funds.

Dash-mounted RADAR systems are used while patrol vehicles are moving or stopped, and can measure traffic speeds in the same and opposing directions. Hand-held LIDAR devices help officers spot speeding drivers through several lanes of traffic or obstructions such as trees and bushes.

Recipients include:

– Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Dept.: 10 RADAR, 1 LIDAR
– Brown County Sheriff’s Dept.: 5 RADAR, 1 LIDAR
– Decatur County Sheriff’s Dept.: 4 RADAR, 1 LIDAR
– Franklin Police Dept.: 8 RADAR, 1 LIDAR
– Greensburg Police Dept.: 4 RADAR, 1 LIDAR
– Greenwood Police Dept.: 10 RADAR, 1 LIDAR
– Jennings County Sheriff’s Dept.: 5 RADAR, 1 LIDAR
– Johnson County Sheriff’s Dept.: 2 RADAR, 1 LIDAR
– Nashville Police Dept.: 5 RADAR, 1 LIDAR
– Seymour Police Dept. 5 RADAR , 1 LIDAR
– Shelby County Sheriff’s Dept.: 5 RADAR, 1 LIDAR

Federal grants administered by ICJI’s Traffic Safety Division fund training, equipment and overtime enforcement law-enforcement costs.