I've heard of paper certs before, but paper cops?

In what I'm sure is costing the public WAY too much money in Kinko's bills, the Ottawa Police department is using a new way of getting speeders to slow down. Cardboard shaped photo realistic cops. Can't wait for the next headline... "Cardboard cop no help with pileup." Yup, I'm sure people will be slamming on breaks causing wrecks...

Police in westernmost Canada are deploying life-size cardboard replicas of traffic cops pointing a radar gun at oncoming traffic to try to reduce speeding and road fatalities, authorities said. And these mock-ups are so realistic that while being tested on a Vancouver street this week, "a tow-truck driver pulled up and started talking to it," Staff Sergeant Ralph Pauw told a press conference on Thursday.
Eight of the cut-outs will initially be deployed on city streets, Pauw said. And in case some drivers aren't fooled by the facsimiles, "there may or may not be a (real) police officer behind one of these cut-outs," he added.

Guess this is one way of getting your doughnut break...