Legality of laser diffusers/jammers
Discussion
I've seen some of the blurb on this as it relates to the use of scanners.
For radar the problem comes with having a transmitter rather than just a receiver. You can get hit for making unlicensed tramsmissions under the Wireless Telegraphy Act. With a receiver you can only be nicked for listening to and gaining benefit from unauthorised reception. So, possessing and using the receiving equipment is perfectly legal, using it to gain benefit from receiving broadcasts you're not supposed to is potentially not - but very difficult to prove. I don't think posession of an unlicensed transmitter is an offence but as soon as you switch it on it is.
There have been some cases with people using scanners being pinched because they had all the local plod frequencies programmed in and the case that they were up to no good stuck. I use mine primarily to listen to ATC transmissions which as far as I'm aware nobody has bothered with a test case for.
For radar the problem comes with having a transmitter rather than just a receiver. You can get hit for making unlicensed tramsmissions under the Wireless Telegraphy Act. With a receiver you can only be nicked for listening to and gaining benefit from unauthorised reception. So, possessing and using the receiving equipment is perfectly legal, using it to gain benefit from receiving broadcasts you're not supposed to is potentially not - but very difficult to prove. I don't think posession of an unlicensed transmitter is an offence but as soon as you switch it on it is.
There have been some cases with people using scanners being pinched because they had all the local plod frequencies programmed in and the case that they were up to no good stuck. I use mine primarily to listen to ATC transmissions which as far as I'm aware nobody has bothered with a test case for.
One laser jammer (the LE850?) is legal for sure, as it is just one half of an automatic garage door system. How can the plod do you for that, unless they think you are deliberately perverting the course of justice? (Argument would be that the last owner had such an automatic garage door, and you haven't got around to removing the laser unit from your car yet - or if you have a garage, get the other half of the system).
The nice thing about the LE850 is it sends the laser gun an error message, then stops jamming it 5 seconds later, so the police get a reading when you've slowed down. Therefore it just looks like their gun was temporarily faulty.
The nice thing about the LE850 is it sends the laser gun an error message, then stops jamming it 5 seconds later, so the police get a reading when you've slowed down. Therefore it just looks like their gun was temporarily faulty.
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