The Vancouver Sun reports that the city's police are now using cardboard cops with radar guns to get drivers to slow down:
'There may or may not be a police officer behind one of these cut-outs,' Vancouver police traffic Staff Sgt. Ralph Pauw said at a news conference. Police will erect several on poles at the start of their shifts 'and will stand behind one, two or all three of them,' then take them down at the end of shifts, he said. The fake officers were relatively inexpensive to make, Pauw said. 'We got the city sign shop to put them together, so it's really only the cost of the plastic,' he said, adding the cardboard is covered in rainproof plastic, so any graffiti just wipes off. The cut-outs were tested on the street for a few hours earlier this week and 'a tow-truck driver pulled up and started talking to it,' Pauw said.
Sender-in Jason says it reminds him of Latour's sleeping policeman. Indeed.
- Anne
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