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France extends speed enforcement network

Sagem Sécurité (Safran group) has signed a contract with the French Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea, to install additional automated speed control radars over a period of four years.
January 30, 2012 Read time: 1 min
Sagem Sécurité (Safan group) has signed a contract with the French Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea, to install additional automated speed control radars over a period of four years. The company will be responsible for the supply, installation and maintenance of approximately 600 latest-generation Mesta fixed radar stations.

Sagem Sécurité has installed some 2,600 fixed and mobile radar stations on the French highway system since 2003.

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