Faulty technology sees drop in speeding offences detected

Faulty technology has slowed down the detection of speeding offences in the city by 60%.

The latest Galway City Joint Policing Committee (JPC), heard how the number of speeding offences detected in the city in the first half of the year was 2,658.

This compares with 6,518 for the corresponding period in 2015, a difference of 3,860 or 59% less speeding detections.

Garda Chief Supt Tom Curley said the reduction in speeding offences was due to a “technical problem we had with our vans”.

The computer system was not recording the offences, he said.

He assured the meeting that the system was fixed, now “up and running again”, and he expected there to be an increase in the number of speeding detections in the city by the end of December.

For more on this story, see this week’s Galway CIty Tribune