In Europe, there are no uniform rules that directly prohibit radar detectors in cars. Nevertheless, the device is strictly prohibited in several places – e.g. in Denmark.
While some traffic alarms are perfectly legal to drive around in Denmark, a so-called radar detector that reveals the police's location is strictly prohibited.
At least to use. However, the equipment must be in the car as such. Way back in 1999, however, a motorist was acquitted of driving around with such a person in the car, because the case against him fell on a technicality about the location of the equipment.
The detector itself was not mounted in the windscreen, but even though it was in the glove compartment, preparations had been made for mounting.
Jyllands-Posten wrote that in July 1999.
However, the law has not changed since. And now a report from the German answer to FDM, ADAC, reveals that the equipment is at least as illegal in several places both in and outside Europe.
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In Belgium, the penalty is, for example, a fine or imprisonment for 15 days. However, the penalty is increased in repeat cases, up to three months. In addition, the authorities confiscate and destroy the equipment.
In Finland, Greece and Italy, radar detectors are both illegal to carry around and to have installed in cars. At least for private individuals. The same is the case in the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden and Serbia.
Even in Turkey, whose land area barely touches European soil, motorists can be punished with what ADAC calls 'hefty fines' if the radar equipment is discovered by law enforcement.
It is completely different in the USA, for example, where only the state of Virginia and the capital Washington DC directly prohibit the use of the equipment.
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