THE Victorian Police say they will unveil its digitector to catch speeding drivers over Christmas.

But why don’t they use or unveil this throughout the entire year and not just Christmas?

Yes, there are more people on the roads this time of year, but surely it would help prevent a lot of other deaths throughout the rest of the year.

This is the problem; the police are rampant come holiday time and are barely seen other times in the year.

More consistency is needed for them and for the rest of the state.

They should also have more drug and booze buses around in other times of the year rather than just the holiday periods also.

When was the last time you got breath tested at a booze bus? Or drug tested?

Back onto the speeding game, the digitector is a tool that was used in the 80s and consists of two strips placed on a road that measures the speed at which a car has travelled between the two points.

Senior Sergeant Wayne Cully told The Age the digitector would catch drivers who believed they could outwit police.

“These days, repeat speeding offenders are always on the lookout for a police car with a radar attached, but they have all forgotten about the digitector,” he said.

“It’s pure mathematics. This device always catches the speeding drivers by surprise, they don’t realise they’ve been caught until they’re being waved in.”