Police have clarified their stance on the speed limit after announcing yesterday there would be no tolerance to any speed above the legal limit.
During the Reach the Beach campaign launch, Commissioner Mike Bush yesterday said drivers needed to forget the old message of a tolerance for driving less than 5km/h above the speed limit.
"Do not drive at anything over the limit. That is a focus for us."
But today, Assistant Commissioner Road Policing Dave Cliff told One News there would be no change to the 4km/h tolerance.
"In terms of our policy that really hasn't changed.
"For our cameras if someone's travelling at more than 4km/h above the speed limit, they will get a notice."
However, police still had discretion to pull drivers over who broke the limit by any degree, Mr Cliff said.
"Things that can aggravate it are if lots of pedestrians are around, if it was outside a school, [or] if it was raining."
Last year's Safer Summer campaign introduced a speed tolerance of 4km/h above the speed limit for all of December and January, rather than just over the Christmas and New Year period.
Police reported a 36 percent decrease in drivers exceeding the speed limit by 1-10km/h and a 45 percent decrease for speeding in excess of 10km/h.
Fatal crashes decreased by 22 percent over the summer campaign. Serious injury crashes decreased by 8 percent.
