This is Sussex --LYING drivers who try to deceive Sussex Police are being targeted in a new campaign.
Detectives and safety camera teams are hunting drivers who are trying to dodge justice by lying about speeding.
Seven drivers in Sussex have already been convicted of perverting the course of justice while a string of others are being investigated.
Lies that have caught drivers out include claiming someone else was driving – including one woman who said she had left her car at Halfords and that staff there had committed two separate speeding offences, and a woman who had a second set of numberplates made up, claiming her car's identity had been "cloned".
The partnership works by camera enquiry officers from Sussex Safer Roads Partnership putting together files on drivers who they believe could be lying to avoid speeding fines and points on their licences.
Files are then passed to detectives who question the suspects and charge them if there is enough evidence that they are deliberately lying.
Inspector Chris Collins, from Sussex's central ticket and summons unit, said: "We believe these drivers are just the tip of the iceberg and that many more motorists have lied about speeding and got away with it." Reported by This is 8 hours ago.