Officers write speeding fines based on estimations: Queensland police chief

Queensland Police commissioner Ian Stewart has admitted officers regularly estimate drivers' speeds before issuing fines.

The police chief said Queensland officers often tracked drivers they believed to be speeding and issued tickets based on the "highly-accurate" speedometers in their police cars.

"Not every vehicle is fitted with a radar," Commissioner Stewart said.

But in the event officers got it wrong, he said the court system would ensure the fine was revoked.

"If the magistrate is not satisfied, then they will throw it out," he said.

"I've seen it happen – it happened to me."

Commissioner Stewart's comments come just days after video of a truck driver being booked for speeding solely on the basis of a NSW highway patrol officer's estimate was posted to Facebook.

"You can't show me the radar?" driver Chris Smith, from Coonabarabran, asks in the clip.

The officer replies, "I don't need to. Everything is based on my estimations."

The clip has been viewed more than 1.5 million times since Saturday and has drawn criticism from speeding fine consultants who labelled the practice guesswork.

Source: News Corp