An audit has found Asheville Police wrote nearly 500 speeding tickets using radar guns that were not calibrated.
The city released audit results last week to media outlets. It included a note from interim Police Chief Steve Belcher saying the department had already put in place better documentation to solve the problems.
The lack of calibration, which could give false speed readings, came to light last October. Prosecutors had to dismiss hundreds of tickets.
The audit found 482 citations written with improperly calibrated radar guns from 2011 to 2014, and 54 tickets written by officers not certified to use radar. Auditors say bad records kept them from determining the status of 800 more tickets. That accounts for about one in every six tickets issued by police during that time.
Topics Law Enforcement North Carolina
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