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Laser / radar detector

Question

I have a question regarding the legality of Laser/radar Detectors. Is this type of equipment legal in South Africa and is it allowed to be installed on a vehicle? I have checked the National Road Traffic Act and have not found any information regarding this.

Answer

Sorry. I understood that you wanted information on the equipment used by the officers !!! Not on equipment to DETECT the equipment used by police departments. My apologies - I should have read more carefully.... You may NOT use any device to detect the equipment - goes to defeating the ends of justice and / or impeding / preventing an officer from performing his / her duties. If found operating the device, you will be charged accordingly.

Comments

Can the same not be said about a GPS device as it indcates the position of Fixed traps etc.A radar / Laser detector dose not interfear with the speed monitoring equipment.I have read other actricals that say that Radar /laser detector are not ilegal. ??

Typical in this environment and with this topic you will always have two camps. In KZN we remove the detecting device and send it for testing by an independent lab, if the device which in some cases is built into the vehicle, most often the grill can read laser frequencies we charge the owner for defeating as the driver would have NO other reason for fitting such a device or activating such a device.

There are hundreds of R T Act compliant speed (max speed) road traffic signs round the country not to mention hundreds of thousands of barrier lines, all that is required is to lift the right foot off that pedal. In the days of radar there was legislation in the old Radio Communications Act that precluded any one from receiving such a signal. We have friends ,covert operators who work from home P C”s who populate these GPS devices with the location of several false speed enforcement sites, to stay up with the game the GPS owner has to keep uploading new sites every week. And so the cat and the mouse play. The new RT Act amendments will specifically out law such warning devices we expect it to be enacted in time for April.

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