Is that a stationary tractor? Yes, but look closer. Traffic officers are covering in tractors to snap motorists speeding on country roads.
Humberside Police officers use the farm machiney and horseboxes as an invisible cloak in a crackdown on speeding bikers on the B1253 from Bridlington to York.
But using speed cameras out of clear view appears to be contrary with advice from the chief officers who have previously recommended that they should be clearly on display to the public.
The aim has a positive message, to reduce the number of motorcyclists killed or seriously injured, but it has stirred anger from some of those caught out.
The photo, which seem to show a police officer in a John Deere tractor, were taken by man who did not wish to be named on a stretch of the road between Bridlington and York on Sunday.
Inspector Mark Hughes from Humberside Police’s Roads Policing Unit, said: “At the moment Humberside Police are conducting Operation Kansas in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
“This operation runs alongside the well-established and much publicised Operation Achilles. It is concerned with ‘high-end’ speeding offenders in the East Riding, deploying speed cameras, which are located in a variety of stationary vehicles. ??
“Vehicles that are detected travelling at very high speeds are stopped further along the road and drivers/riders are spoken to and dealt with at the roadside.
“Although the majority of offenders are motorcycles, a number of cars are also dealt with in this operation.
“We regularly record speeds in the high 90s and more than 100mph and this on country roads where the national speed limit of 60mph is in force. ??
“It goes without saying that such speeds on these roads are inherently dangerous, particularly when you consider how many side roads and field entrances there are.
