Campus police officers are using radar guns to warn drivers on campus to slow down and drive safely.

Officers from the Department of Public Safety and Police use speed radar guns when they notice students “driving a little too fast,” Kimberly Starr, a campus police officer, told Campus Current.

“The radar is just another tool that we use to try and keep our campus community safe, and traffic is a big factor in keeping our campus community safe,” Starr said. “There is a big difference between getting hit by somebody driving 15 miles an hour and getting hit by somebody driving 25 [mph], whether that[’s] on foot or in a vehicle.”

Starr, a fifth-year officer, said the campus police have been using radar for as long as she has been at AACC. Although “a lot of times” students slow down when they see a police car, she has observed a lot of speeding drivers, Starr said.

“If I’m [stationed on] West Campus, I like to sit at the very top of … [the] E lot so I can see all the cars that are coming in and going out,” Starr said. “The majority of the campus is only 15 miles an hour and a lot of cars are going way over 15 miles an hour.”

Starr added: “Cars are going too fast for this campus right now.”

Speed gun radars help with traffic control because they give officers an accurate picture of how fast students are going, Starr said.

Speeding drivers are concerning, Starr said, because they create a safety issue.