The RCMP would like to remind motorists that using any device in a motor vehicle to detect the presence of police radar, or other electronic speed measuring equipment, is prohibited under Section 135 of the PEI Highway Traffic Act.
The RCMP have a number of police vehicles equipped with Radar Detector Detector Units (RDDU) that are very effective in detecting the presence of a radar detector in use, including many devices that are advertised as being undetectable.
Section 135 of the Highway Traffic Act also gives a police officer the power to stop, enter, and search a motor vehicle that they have reasonable grounds to believe is equipped with a radar warning device, and to seize any such device that is found.
Drivers found to be using a radar warning device are subject to a $150 fine and surcharge, and the forfeiture and destruction of the device.
Pictured are a number of radar detectors that have been recently seized that are going to be destroyed.
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