The first year of traffic cameras has yielded 1.7 million speeding tickets and a dramatic drop in recorded speeding,

Oleksiy Biloshitskiy, the first deputy head of the Patrol Police Department, told reporters yesterday. Of the fines, 85% were paid, yielding the Treasury almost $10 million. As of last weekend, the cameras were catching 7,000 speeders a day, about 15% the number who getting caught when the system started last summer.