The NSW Government’s Transport for NSW website states four new positions in and around Orange were operational as of January.

They are Leeds Parade-William Street, Warrendine Street, Forest Road-Peisley Street and on the Mitchell Highway at Belgravia.

The city’s original mobile speed camera is currently parked on Woodward Street, but has also been deployed on Bathurst Road, Molong Road and Summer Street.

The cameras have also operated on Burrendong Way, Forbes Road and The Escort Way.

The website states the cameras are used in locations that are “selected to meet the criteria in the NSW Speed Camera Strategy and will help reduce crashes in high-risk locations and speeding”.

The stark increase in Orange’s coverage is not unique in the Central West.

Molong will house its first camera, which will be rotated between Hill, Market and Watson streets and the Mitchell Highway.

To the city’s south motorists will have to step lightly in and around Millthorpe and Blayney, especially on Church Street, Millthorpe Road and Orange Road.

Bathurst’s cameras now total three, with a vehicle to be parked on Bentinck and Rocket streets to bolster the current installments on the Mitchell and Great Western highways, while Dubbo’s newest addition on the Newell Highway takes the number of cameras watching the city to a whopping seven.

The latest roll out by Transport for NSW takes the total number of locations monitored by mobile speed cameras beyond 1000, with cameras periodically monitoring around 1,800 kilometres of the state’s roads.

The news comes as NSW top traffic cop railed against motorists speeding during Operation Safe Return, which ran from Wednesday and Sunday.

In that five-day period NSW police issued 5780 infringements for speeding, while 395 major crashes were reported and four people died.

Acting Commander of the State’s Traffic and Highway Patrol, Assistant Commissioner Michael Corboy, said the message that speeding kills is not getting through.

“I cannot believe the sheer idiocy I have seen on our roads during this operation,” he said.

“We caught more people speeding in every region across the state than last year.”