LE 280 — RADAR CERTIFICATION
This course will help students gain an understanding of the association between speed offenses and motor vehicle accidents and injuries. This course also covers major types of speed regulations, including the origin, development, and scope of these regulations; safety benefits of effective speed enforcement; the origin and history of RADAR equipment; freq uency and wavelength of a RADAR signal and the relationship governing frequency, wavelength and RADAR signal speed: Doppler Principle; basic operation of a stationary and a moving RADAR instrument; case law affecting the use of RADAR for speed measurement and enforcement; preparing and presenting evidence and testimony on RADAR speed measurement; functional components of the RADAR unit; and operate a RADAR unit in a practical exercise. .5 credit