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Saudi Arabia - Attach on Saher (speed camera operator)
About 15 speed camera operator employees met with company officials in Al Khalidiya near Mecca, demanding protection after a colleague was assaulted and stabbed with a sharp object, causing wounds in several places on his body.
The employees also raised concerns about their salary and health insurance to cover these assaults. Company representatives tried to calm the group and promised to meet their demands.
Photo- Attacked by an unknown assailant on Thursday evening while performing work on the road to Mecca. The attack came less than 24 hours after a speed camera operator was found murdered in his burnt-out vehicle.
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By Allison Klein July 2011
USA - Maryland State Police closed down the Baltimore-Washington Parkway for more than three hours Wednesday as they searched for a man who was carrying a shotgun and hammer and smashed the windshield of a Jeep SUV that had speed cameras mounted on it.
Nobody was injured. As of Thursday morning, police were still searching for the man, who was described as wearing a plaid, possibly flannel, shirt on an 87-degree day.
A state contractor was inside the Jeep, which was parked on the side of the BW Parkway about 11:30 a.m near a construction zone at Route 195. The cameras were supposed to monitor speeding near the work area.
A man came out of a nearby strip of woods wielding a shotgun and a hammer. He began tapping on the rear of the Jeep with the shotgun, said Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley. The worker became frightened and started blowing his horn.
“The suspect then came to the front of the Jeep and began yelling incoherently and smashing the windshield with the hammer,” Shipley said.
The windshield shattered, Shipley said, and the worker got out of the car and crouched by the guardrail for cover. The man
with the hammer and gun then left.
“The suspect disappeared into the wooded area,” Shipley said. “We’re still looking for him.”
Shipley said he did not know whether the man was angry about the speed camera or if he had another motivation.
Police described him as white, 60 to 65 years old, 5-foot-8 and 150 pounds, with gray hair and wearing a red and blue checked shirt and blue jeans.
Local officers on foot, canine units and helicopters assisted State Police in the search. The parkway reopened about 3 p.m.
State Police and the State Highway Administration announced last year that they were deploying speed cameras in the area. The posted speed through the work zone is 55 mph. Under state law, drivers exceeding the speed limit by 12 mph are fined. The fine is $40 for each violation.
The work zone is in place as the parkway is widened from Interstate 195 to I-695. The $12 million project is scheduled to be completed by spring 2012.
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RIYADH: A Saher car was set on fire in the Alquwayiyah area on the Makkah highway east of Riyadh, killing the driver.
Riyadh police is intensifying its search for the attacker. The reason of the attack is still unknown.
On Thursday deputy spokesman for Riyadh Police Maj. Fawaz Al-Maiman said: “The police with the cooperation of Saudi security agencies are investigating the shooting incident. Police investigators were dispatched to the area where the incident occurred for additional evidence.”
A Saher employee was also recently attacked in Abha when a gun-toting man shot at his car, a local newspaper reported Monday.
The worker, identified as Sultan, said he noticed a vehicle following him. When he stopped at a restaurant, two people got out of the car, approached him and threatened to kill him. He said that he tried to talk to them but they did not listen and one of them shot at him, missing.
"I did not know who they were and why they were attacking me. When I got out of my car and confronted them, one of them returned to his car, took his gun and aimed it at me,” said Sultan.
“He fired his gun, but he missed. A number of people managed to seize the gun from the shooter, but the two escaped before police arrived. I did succeed in writing down the number plate. I was slightly injured from the attack," said Sultan. Police are still searching for the attackers.
This attack is similar to other incidents where Saher employees and their cars have been attacked.
In a recent incident in Buraidah, two Saudis in a pick-up truck pulled up next to a Saher vehicle and threw a metal bar at it, smashing the window. The driver suffered minor injuries.
Last year a youth threw an iron bar at a Saher car also in Buraidah while driving at high speed. The rod broke the windshield, and damaged cameras and other equipment.
There is a video clip circulating on the Internet and mobile phones that showed a Saher car pulling over on a main road. A number of Saudi teenagers then started attacking the vehicle and throwing rocks at it.
The driver was left with no option but to escape from the spot before the attacks escalated.
In Makkah, a Saher vehicle was attacked when five men, three of them dressed in military uniform, assaulted two operators inside.
In March an unknown thief stole a Saher camera from a vehicle stationed at Jeddah’s Prince Miteb (Arbaeen) Street. The theft occurred when the vehicle's driver and operators went to the mosque for Asr prayer. The equipment inside the car was valued at an estimated SR500,000.
In Madinah, a young Saudi, bitter after having been fined numerous times by Saher, stood by the city’s Prince Naif Street waving a stick at passing motorists to warn them that a camera vehicle was parked ahead.
“Certainly there is a need to review the Saher speed monitoring program. What happened to victims is unacceptable especially when the main purpose of Saher is to save lives not lose lives and not in this violent manner. This is not us and not how we are brought up,” said 23-year-old Jeddah resident Abdullah Mansour.
“This is not just an attack on a Saher employee who was doing his job, this is an attack on our safety and on the Interior Ministry itself. Whoever the attacker is needs to be apprehended and prosecuted by the law for committing this heinous crime,” said father of four Galal Saleh.
June 20th 2007 - Police in Victoria hope speed camera footage will lead them to a man who confronted a camera operator with an axe in Melbourne's south-east last night.
The operator was sitting in a car on Wedge Road in Carrum Downs at around 10.30pm when a man smashed the car's window with an axe.
He fled when an alarm went off.
Acting Sergeant Cam Hunt says the man may have been upset about being photographed.
"We are urgently down-loading all the camera files of that particular vehicle in the hope that one of those cameras may lead us to the offender," he said.
"Possibly, he was detected speeding and took umbrage to that in a most violent manner."
Acting Sergeant Hunt say the camera operator received a cut finger and was left shaken.
"Completely unprovoked on an innocent person that was just going about his job," he said.
"He was shocked, shaken, shook up, and very upset over the incident."
"As you can imagine he's not a trained police officer, he's a public servant and a speed camera operator."
This is not the first time such an incident has happened.
In March, Westmeadows man Roger Kanjir was sentenced to nine months jail, for attacking a speed camera operator at Mickleham, north of Melbourne in August 2007.
The operator required hospital treatment to remove glass shards from his eyes.The 36 year old was released on bail pending an appeal.
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2009 Arizona USA - RedFlex Camera Operator Employee Murdered
Police are hunting have arrested a suspect in a SUV who shot a photo radar van operator Sunday night.
The 51-year-old victim, Doug Georgianni, had worked for the photo enforcement company Redflex as a "driver-technician" for only three months, according to a news release just put out by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Georgianni was shot as he worked in a fully marked DPS photo radar van parked on the side of the eastbound lanes of the Loop 101, just east of 7th Street.
The pictures of the suspect vehicle in this post were released by PD this morning.
Here's the first news release from DPS on the incident, e-mailed just after 2 a.m.:
RedFlex Employee is Killed by Gunshots on State Route 101 near 7th AvenueNote: Initial Incident Information On the evening of Sunday, April 19, 2009, about 8:48 PM, on State Route 101 eastbound near 7th Avenue, an employee of RedFlex Traffic Systems was killed as result of gunshots received. The employee was inside of an Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) photo enforcement program vehicle (Ford Escape) and was parked alongside State Route 101 performing the routine tasks of monitoring the data collection equipment.
DPS Director Roger Vanderpool, stated the shooting was appalling, senseless and this ridiculous act has taken the life of an employee performing not only their assigned duties but specifically performing a function that has proven to save motorists lives through the photo enforcement program. DPS has committed the full resources of the department to assist the family, co-workers and friends of the RedFlex employee during this tragedy.
Phoenix Police Department received 9-1-1 phone calls around 8:50 PM, reference gun shots in the area of the DPS vehicle. DPS Officers and Phoenix PD Officers were on scene within minutes and identified that several gun shots had struck the vehicle and the employee had also been shot. The employee was transported to an area hospital where unfortunately later, died as a result of the gunshot wounds.
DPS and Phoenix PD investigators are conducting a joint investigation into this homicide. Information will be provided on the name of employee sometime on Monday morning. Phoenix PD will be providing information on the investigative phase of the homicide.
At about 3 a.m., Phoenix police put out a more detailed description of the suspect:
Phoenix Police homicide investigators have asked me to advise you of the following possible suspect description obtained from witnesses:
Suspect: w/m; 60's; thin face; white unkempt hair midway down to the ears; white mustache; smelled of smoke
This possible suspect was seen in the previously photographed suspect vehicle. Investigators believe the suspect left the crime scene in the vehicle, got off the 101 Freeway at 7th Street, and drove southbound on 7th Street from the freeway.
Again, anyone who sees the suspect vehicle or suspect should call 911. Anyone who knows who the suspect is and recognizes the suspect vehicle vehicle is encouraged to call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or for Spanish call 480-TESTIGO.
UPDATE 9:48 a.m.: Phoenix police announce they have arrested a suspect in the shooting. No further details were released. At 10:12 a.m., Phoenix police Sergeant Andy Hill e-mails that cops are "just starting the suspect interview process" and will brief the press later this afternoon.
Arizona USA - Murder Charge in RedFlex Camera Operator Employee Shooting
Apr 22, 2009
PHOENIX (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting a photo radar van operator was charged with first-degree murder Wednesday, and authorities said they believe the killing was premeditated.
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas cited a probable-cause statement written by police as supporting prosecutors' belief the shooting was premeditated, necessary to support the first-degree charge.
The document said Doug Georgianni, 51, had the van's interior light on when he was shot Sunday night. It also alleged that Thomas Patrick Destories, 68, pulled up behind the van and then slowly alongside it before firing and that the van's window near Georgianni had a tight pattern of three bullets holes.
Destories, a Jeep tour operator, and his lawyer declined to comment Wednesday. He also was charged with drive-by shooting and firing a gun at a structure and was expected to appear in court Monday.
Destories had apologized and told police that he didn't mean for anyone to get hurt when he was arrested Monday.
"I'm sorry. I was going to turn myself in," he had said in the statement. "I didn't mean for anyone to get hurt. I saw it on the news. The gun is in the saddlebag."
Police found the magazine for a .45-caliber pistol in Destories' front pocket when they arrested him, according to the document.
Georgianni had worked for three months for RedFlex Traffic Systems Inc., which was contracted by the state to operate the photo radar systems. His sister, Melanie Georgianni, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that her brother was planning to leave the job in a few days to sell insurance.
Arizona became the first state to use photo speed enforcement on state highways last year.
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51-year-old victim, Doug Georgianni |
Charged with Murder |
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