Youngstown speed cops on duty only 2 days this week

October 9, 2015 at 10:55p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

City officers on vehicular-speeding duty were out only two days this week, and the number of citations reflects that.

Only 166 citations were issued with officers out on speed duty Tuesday and Friday, said Lt. William Ross.

Ross is head of the city police department’s traffic unit, which operates the speed-gun program.

The week prior, officers were out for three days and issued 384 speeding citations. Before that, Sept. 19 to 25, 518 citations were issued, and 570 were handed out between Sept. 12 and 18.

Optotraffic is the Maryland company that processes and mails the citations for a 35 percent fee.

Read more about the speed-trapping program in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.