A new fleet of mobile camera vans will soon hit the roads in a fresh bid to tackle dangerous driving.
The vans will be deployed across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight as part of an almost £700,000 investment from police and crime commissioner Donna Jones to help reduce speeding and improve road safety.
The new vehicles will form part of the Safer Roads Unit, which already operates across more than 250 locations in the two counties.
Donna Jones, police and crime commissioner, said: "Improving road safety is a cornerstone of my commitment to protecting communities across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
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"The vans are an agile and responsive means to do that.
"Between January and December last year, these nine vans captured 37,384 offences.
"Undoubtedly this helped prevent further tragedies from occurring on our roads."
Locations for deployment are chosen based on areas where there have been serious or fatal collisions, or where communities have raised concerns about speeding.
The funding will be used to replace the current fleet over the next four years, with each new van equipped with updated technology.
Each vehicle will be fitted with active remote sensors that create 3D maps using laser pulses, along with HD video and fully-surround camera imaging.
Ms Jones said: "While proving highly dynamic, these vans are up to 16 years old and need upgrading.
"Without this investment, they’ll end up being taken off the roads – leaving them without the critical enforcement needed to keep them safe."
“But it’s important to recognise that road safety is a shared responsibility. It doesn’t matter if we’re heading to work, doing the school run or popping to the shops, everyone has the right to use the roads without fear of injury.”
Between October 2024 and September 2025, 1,286 people were killed or seriously injured on roads in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Earlier this year, the PCC held her inaugural Road Safety Summit where she announced major investment for road safety projects alongside the creation of new Roads Policing Tasking Team with a focus on the ‘Fatal Five’ - speeding, drink or drug driving, distraction, not wearing a seatbelt, and careless driving.
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