Steve Callaghan

Steve Callaghan is an engineer whose first disciplines are telecommunications and electronics; these have now been enhanced by post graduate qualifications in forensic engineering.  Steve has worked for Marconi twice and served 16 years in the Royal Navy as a Weapons Engineer in the submarine service. After retiring from the Royal Navy Steve directed a telecommunication training company, assisting its growth from 4 to 50 technical presenters as well as writing and presenting technical training courses.  Steve took an appointment at Cumbria Police where he managed the Cumbria Safety Camera Partnership for 5 years.  Steve introduced a Random Road Watch enforcement scheme in Cumbria during 2006 which assisted in the county achieving the Government’s 2010 casualty reduction targets for the area at the end of 2007. 
Steve joined RSS at the end of 2007 as the Technical Support Manager where he designs and conducts the Type Approval Performance Testing for speed and red-light enforcement systems. Steve leads the ISO17025 accredited calibration laboratory at RSS that provides calibration and integrity testing of road traffic enforcement equipment in the Home Office Type Approval process. Recent unique achievements of the laboratory were to certify the calibration of a mobile speed enforcement radar while in motion, and the speed & distance accuracy of a hand-held close-following enforcement system. He is a technical advisor in approval, compliance and operational matters to national police and highways associations.