Police Radar

Because police radar units have been implicated in possible health effects, some community agencies have sought independent evaluation of the RF fields associated with commonly used traffic radar devices. These devices are very low powered and result in RF fields that are substantially lower than the Maximum Permissible Exposure limits contained in most of today's world RF exposure standards. In a representative study conducted for the Division of Risk Assessment of a California city, field measurements were performed on a variety of traffic radar units and a report was prepared that summarized the results and placed them in context relative to existing standards for human exposure to microwave fields and specific absorption rate (SAR).