Speeding drivers are being targeted in a nationwide crackdown.
The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (Acpos) said the aim of the day of action is to make the country’s roads safer by catching out “inappropriate drivers”.
Officers will also be targeting uninsured and unlicensed drivers, those failing to use seatbelts or illegally using mobile phones or handheld devices.
They will also be on the lookout for vehicles which are not fit for the road. There is a clear link between speeding and fatal crashes or those which cause serious injury.
Acpos has set a road fatality reduction target of 30% by 2015, and 40% by 2020, and hopes to reduce serious casualties from road accidents by 43% by 2015, and 55% by 2020.
It is also seeking to cut child fatalities by 35% in the next two years, and 50% over the next seven.
“We know that almost 115,000 speeding offences were recorded in Scotland in 2010-11, which represents over a third of all motor vehicle offences,” said Superintendent Denise Mulvaney of Lothian and Borders Police.
“In every case of speeding or inappropriate driving, offenders are potentially putting their lives and the lives of others at risk this is unacceptable. There are many ways in which drivers can put themselves and other roads users at risk speeding, failing to obey traffic signals and signs and using a vehicle which is just not fit for the road.”
Chief Inspector Sandy Bowman, head of the Tayside Police Road Policing Unit, said: “The consequences of driving at an inappropriate speed can be devastating to road users.
“Many responsible drivers have to suffer the behaviour and frustration caused by the selfish and inconsiderate driving of others, and that is unacceptable.”
Speeding carries a minimum penalty of a £60 fine and three penalty points, and in extreme cases the driver may be convicted of dangerous driving, lose their licence for at least 12 months and ordered to resit the driving test.