Deliberate concealment
Deliberate concealment
Here's the camera again in a different location. The blue box with the bulb is the flash.
Minigatso on tripod
This is a rear view of the camera. You might think it would be vulnerable to attack being there by itself.
Minigatso
This is the side road where the van parks to hide itself from passing motorists. It also has visual contact with the
Minigatso in case someone vandalises it.
Talivan parked on side road
Here's another one of those Minigatsos. The van has parked in the driveway of one of the houses on Alterton Hill in Loughton. The tactics chosen by the Essex
Scamera Partnership are becoming more underhanded by the day. Its time these con artists posing as safety partnerships were disbanded.
Minigatso
Here's another Talivan with a Minigatso. This one is trying to hide in amongst the bushes. I just hope a dog comes along and does its stuff.
Talivan with Minigatso
Here's a front view of the last picture.
Minigatso on tripod
This rather dubious van is parked in Witham, Essex. The colour and markings are hardly whats expected to be found on a Talivan and the rear facing camera on the tripod
is placed in front of the van so its hidden to traffic which is being targetted.
Talivan
This is looking the other way and the tripod is in full view but its traffic going the other way thats being targetted.
Talivan
This London Scamera Partnership van in Sutton, Surrey is also trying to hide behind a bush. Minigatso is used here as well.
Hiding in bushes
Here's another London van. Neither of the occupants are wearing hi-vis clothing which is contrary to the regulations.
Talivan
This is another London van on the lookout for its next victim.
Talivan
Here's a front view showing showing a hi-vis jacket on the dashboard. Too bad its not worn when the camera is being used.
Talivan
This van is parked in a 20 minute loading bay on the South Circular in Forest Hill, South London. The van was parked there for hours totally ignoring the parking
restrictions. There are no signs or anything else to suggest it is a speedtrap when approaching from the rear.
Ignoring parking restrictions
The next eight pictures were taken in Bournemouth, Dorset.
This is the A338 Wessex Way, a high quality route into the town with a 50mph limit. The speed limit drops from 70mph to 50mph shortly before this point and so the scamera
partnership takes full advantage of it.
The white van parked on the grass is a Talivan and the camera is placed in the taper where the slip road joins.
Hidden camera
This is the view looking the other way showing the camera. This uses radar like the pictures above but the scamera partnership prefers to leave them plain black which
contravenes the rules on visibility. They should be painted yellow.
Minigatso on tripod
The scamera partnership guy has returned to the camera to see how much money he's made. Unlike laser, radar can be left unaccompanied as it works automatically like a
Gatso. The camera operator can simply sit in the van reading a newspaper all day.
Counting his cash
Here's a closeup of the van which doesn't have markings on the front. Furthermore it looks like a contractors van which has
something to do with the small building. In all its just another moneymaking scam.
Poorly marked van
A year later and this is the other end of the same flyover. Once again a Talivan is waiting to pounce on unsuspecting motorists. However, unlike last year there's no
Minigatso which means it could be using laser.
Talivan
Here's another road in the area. Spot the camera but what about the van? Its parked further up the side road out of view of unsuspecting drivers.
Minigatso on tripod
Another Bournemouth scene. Where's the black tripod mounted camera this time? If you look carefully its to the left of the van on the side road. The Talivan once again
is parked further up the side road.
Another Minigatso poorly marked
And here's one of the black cameras. How nice it would be to knock it off its stand?
Black Minigatso
Here's another black Minigatso in Dorset. The van is hidden behind the bushes on the left.
Minigatso with hidden van
Here's yet another black Minigatso which is being used to fleece motorists in Dorset. This one is on the A37 south of Yeovil. As usual the van is parked in a side road
behind the bushes.
Deliberate concealment
This police van isn't displaying a tax disc. If anyone else did this they
would be pulled over straight away but as we know, the police are above the law.
No tax disc
Late evening and this plain white van is parked on the A458 just east of Bridgnorth.
Innocent looking van?
This is a rear view and there appears to be two black squares above the doors.
Unmarked Talivan
This closeup shows two cameras above the doors. This is an ANPR (automatic number plate reader) which reads the
number plate of every passing vehicle to see if it is taxed or whether it is reported stolen. However, many motorists
believe these are speed cameras and will hit the brakes as they see it. ANPR vans are normally accompanied by a fleet of
motorbikes who will pull over any suspect vehicles.
This is an ANPR setup and not a speedtrap
This is another ANPR van. This one is parked in the centre of the road which could cause problems if an ambulance needs to get past slower traffic.
Parked dangerously
This view of an ANPR van was taken from a lorry cab. The notice reads something like 'DVLA Vehicle Excise Checks'.
ANPR
This ANPR van is parked on a bridge above the M5 in Worcestershire. There's a camera on a tripod above each lane. This setup is only used for ANPR but people still
think these are speedtraps and hit the brakes accordingly.
This is ANPR and not a speedtrap
This ANPR van is parked on double yellows in Bradford.
ANPR parked illegally
What's worse than parking on double yellows? Parking on double red lines such as the plonker in this van in Forest Hill, London.
Illegally parked
This ANPR van is parked on one of the access roads to the Glastonbury festival to harass music fans. It's also blocking a bus stop.
ANPR
This is one of many ANPR vans that were targetting the A9 near Gleneagles when the G8 summit took place in 2005. As it turned out, the terrorists struck London instead
as security was concentrated in Scotland.
ANPR
This ANPR van has a camera symbol on the back. This may lead to some motorists mistaking it for a speedtrap.
ANPR
This ANPR van is parked on a bridge above Keele Services on the M6.
ANPR
Here's a view of the cameras, one for each lane.
ANPR
This Smart car can be found on roads near Heathrow. No doubt its making a killing out of catching people for the most minor of violations.
Smart car
This car in Valencia, Spain contains a radar gun which is used to fleece passing motorists. The warning triangles are used to give the impression of a broken down car.
Covert camera
The remaining pictures were sent to me by an Australian visitor. There is a white van parked alongside this residential
road in Canberra.
Talivan parked in the distance
This is a closer view.
Talivan parked on verge
On the roof is this sign with the speed limit. Before you get any ideas that the speed limit seems high, let me remind you that this is 60kmh so it would be about 40mph which is still pretty good compared to whats happening in Britain where many roads like this have been cut to 30mph.
Well it seems I spoke too soon. The speed limit on this road has been reduced to 50kmh since these pictures were taken so it seems the authorities in
Australia are also cutting speed limits in order to increase the amount of revenue from fines.
Showing the speed limit makes sense
This is a Talicar rather than a Talivan. The blue car is parked at the side of this wide suburban street in Adelaide, waiting to fleece drivers of unsuspecting cars going
by. High visibility rules don't apply to Australia.
Plain car
This speedtrap is in South Africa. At least the pickups have blue lights.
Speedtrap