Residents in the south of Edinburgh are due to be armed with speed guns this summer as part of a new scheme to tackle bad drivers.
The pilot of the Community Speed Watch initiative is a partnership between Police Scotland and local community councils.
Normally used by police officers, radar guns which can track vehicles' speeds will be given to trained volunteers.
While these volunteers can't enforce speeds and hand out fines in the same way officers can, they can record licence plates of speeding vehicles and police can send warning letters to their owners.
Pilot schemes are due to take place in the south east and south west of Edinburgh this summer before it is rolled out more widely next year.
Similar schemes elsewhere in the UK have seen pensioners wielding speed guns clocking speeding motorists.
A report from Police Scotland to the city council's south west locality committee said they planned for the initiative to go ahead after securing public liability insurance.
Describing how the scheme would work, the report said: "Trained volunteers work in a team of three, using a detection device to monitor the speeds of vehicles travelling through their local area.
"The registration number of speeding vehicles is recorded. Warning letters are then sent out by the police to the registered keepers stating that their vehicle has been reported as speeding.
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"Locations for monitoring speed are selected from sites suggested by the community, based on where there is most local concern about speeding traffic, or the impact of speed.
"Sites will be risk assessed for suitability by a Community Policing Sergeant."
Volunteers would be chosen from within the relevant community councils. They will be given a day of training and high-visibility vests as well as the radar gun.
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It comes after life-sized cardboard cut-outs of police officers have been deployed around the city to make drivers think twice about their speeds.
"Pop-up Bobs" are available on request and show a police officer holding a speed gun.
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