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A cardboard cutout of a police officer holding a radar gun is travelling around different areas of Lake Country to make drivers jump in their seat and hit the brakes.
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The cutout is nomadic, said Facebook users, citing they香蕉视频直播檝e seen the officer at multiple locations.
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Most of the commenting-cohort agreed the cutout is working and have noticed surrounding drivers slowing down, assumably once they香蕉视频直播檝e noticed the scarecrow.
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The origins of cut-out police in Canada, as far as Cpl. Michael McLaughlin knows, took place in Coquitlam when his detachment spawned Const. Scarecrow in September 2018.
During the unveiling, McLaughlin said if the project saw success, other B.C. RCMP detachments would adopt the project.
This must have been the case, seeing as Lake Country has one as well as nearby Kelowna.
The only other disapproval from the commenters seemed to be one resident who supposedly tried to strike a conversation with the officer.
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