Council Bluffs citizens handle radar guns

Moms, dads, college kids, and senior citizens are on the beat in CouncilBluffs as a part of the “Citizens Radar Watch.” The police departmentstarted the program over a year ago and Captain Keith Mehlin (may-lin) saysit works.The volunteers find a post, use their radar gun, find speeders and recordtheir license plate numbers. The police take that information and send awarning letter. In the past few months, the citizens watch found overfour-hundred speeders.Mehlin says the volunteers don’t interfere with traffic, and as long as theradar guns are out there, speeding is deterred.The police department paid for the extra radar gun with special grant moneydirected for community policing.