Speedsters caught in crackdown

More than 20 speeding drivers have been caught in a police blitz targeting the streets of inner Melbourne.

Police detected 24 speeding offences on Wednesday during the first day of Operation Knockdown, which is aiming to crack down on speed, mobile phone use and seat belt offences in Fitzroy, Collingwood and Richmond over the next two months.

Plain clothes police are helping to enforce the road rules by observing distracted drivers and radioing their details through to the nearest marked police car.

Police also detected 15 mobile phone offences during the blitz.

Yarra police Acting Senior Sergeant Greg Dean said police would continue to target those drivers doing the wrong thing.

Operation Knockdown is part of the We are the Toll three-month road enforcement campaign, launched last week amid police predictions that Victoria’s final road toll in 2012 could be 30 to 40 higher than last year.

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