{"id":16567,"date":"2025-12-10T19:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/ottawa-police-to-launch-new-traffic-units-but-warn-they-cant-replace-speed-cameras\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T22:30:15","slug":"ottawa-police-to-launch-new-traffic-units-but-warn-they-cant-replace-speed-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/ottawa-police-to-launch-new-traffic-units-but-warn-they-cant-replace-speed-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa police to launch new traffic units, but warn they can\u2019t replace speed cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OttawaOttawa police will launch new \u2018district-related traffic units\u2019 next week, but Chief Eric Stubbs warned city councillors they can\u2019t entirely replace the automated speed enforcement cameras that were turned off last month.\u2019There\u2019s more on us,\u2019 police chief tells councillors worried about uptick in speeding after cameras turned offListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Ottawa police to target speeding, street racing with new traffic units Chief Eric Stubbs says he\u2019s heard from the community that residents want more traffic enforcement in the city.Ottawa police are launching new traffic units next week to tackle speeding and other road safety issues in specific parts of the city.Chief Eric Stubbs was at city hall Wednesday to take questions from councillors about the 2026 budget for the Ottawa Police Service. He said police need to have a presence in areas that no longer have automated speed enforcement cameras, following the provincial decision forcing municipalities to remove them. Ottawa\u2019s speed cameras go darkStubbs noted that many of the lost cameras were in school zones and other vulnerable areas. He called the cameras an important tool that police won\u2019t be able to rely on going forward.\u201dThere\u2019s more on us now,\u201d he said. Stubbs said speeding is bound to pick up in those zones now that the cameras have been turned off, but he warned that police can\u2019t possibly pick up all of the slack.\u201dThere\u2019s no doubt that we can\u2019t replace the speed cameras with our resources,\u201d he said.Stubbs said the police service will now launch new \u201cdistrict-related traffic units\u201d on Monday, with a sergeant and four constables initially assigned to each district. That will later grow to seven constables.Police are moving to a model that splits the city into four districts: east, west, south and central.Stubbs later said that the new units are not a direct response to the provincial speed camera decision. He said they were in the works beforehand, and respond to long-standing concerns among councillors about road safety.Speeding up, councillor saysRiver ward Coun. Riley Brockington said he\u2019s noticed a sharp increase in speeding along Bronson Avenue, where automated speed enforcement cameras kept watch over the stretch near Carleton University. \u201cThe average speed is about 20 kilometres higher now today,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople were adhering to the 60 [km\/h limit] posted when the camera was there. It is easily now 80 passing by the university and the park.\u201dBrockington agreed with Stubbs that police alone can\u2019t fill the gap.\u201dThere is a heightened expectation that with the loss of speed enforcement cameras that you are going to be able to be on every street corner at every location where the cameras existed, and that\u2019s an expectation that just won\u2019t be met,\u201d he said.Several councillors have raised speeding, street racing and stunt driving as key concerns in their wards. Stubbs said police have no tolerance for that kind of behaviour and are focusing on enforcement. But he said there are limits.\u201dThere is some displacement going on,\u201d he said. \u201cWe focus on the Strandherd-Woodroffe area. They show up in Kanata. They show up on Merivale. They show up on Riverside Drive, so it is a bit of a chasing exercise.\u201dABOUT THE AUTHORArthur White-Crummey is a reporter at CBC Ottawa. He has previously worked as a reporter in Saskatchewan covering the courts, city hall and the provincial legislature. You can reach him at arthur.white-crummey@cbc.ca.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ottawa police to launch new traffic units, but warn they can\u2019t replace speed cameras OttawaOttawa police will launch new \u2018district-related traffic units\u2019 next week, but Chief Eric Stubbs warned city councillors they can\u2019t entirely replace the automated speed enforcement cameras that were turned off last month.\u2019There\u2019s more on us,\u2019 police chief tells councillors worried about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,1047,1],"tags":[116,1046],"class_list":["post-16567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-ontario","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-ontario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}