Every time a speeding motorist passes a pole-mounted speed-camera box on the side of the road, there is just a one-in-five chance of it having a camera inside.
Herald inquiries have revealed that police own only 12 fixed speed cameras, which are rotated among 56 boxes mounted on poles and power poles around New Zealand.
The cameras have all been in service since 1993 - before digital technology - and all their images must be processed in a darkroom.
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