# Speeder: a police radar for SA:MP

> Speeder is a free SAMP police radar for MoonLoader: speed of the car ahead, driver nick and ID, distance. Command /speeder, three versions in 2019.

- URL: https://pakulichev.com/en/projects/police-radar
- Author: Pakulichev (https://pakulichev.com/)
- Language: en
- Updated: 2026-10-15
- Whole site for LLMs: https://pakulichev.com/llms.txt (index), https://pakulichev.com/llms-full.txt (full text)

## Facts

- **Type:** Police radar
- **Command:** /speeder
- **Requirements:** CLEO 4, SAMPFUNCS, MoonLoader 0.26
- **Format:** compiled speed.luac
- **First version:** March 15, 2019
- **v2.0:** May 19, 2019
- **v3:** July 2019, 1,194 downloads
- **Author:** Pakulichev (Pavel_Garson)

In March 2019, police players on SA:MP servers had one paid way to measure speed: the radar from the premium version of MVDHelper. I made a free one, **Speeder**. The thread on BLAST.HK went up on **March 15, 2019**, and in the header I signed it as Pakulichev (Pavel_Garson), the nick I played police under back then.

## What it shows

The radar looks at the car directly in front of your character and displays:

- its speed;
- the driver's nick and ID;
- the distance to it.

Most servers don't have a separate license plate system, so the "plate number" on the radar is built from fixed letters and the player's ID.

## Installation

You need CLEO 4, SAMPFUNCS and MoonLoader 0.26. Drop `speed.luac` into the `moonloader` folder and type `/speeder` in the game. Once it starts, the chat shows `[SPEEDER] Скрипт инициализирован` ("script initialized").

The radar was only ever distributed compiled. Targeting MoonLoader 0.26 was a deliberate choice: MVDHelper only worked properly on 0.25.

## Versions

| Version | Date | What changed | Downloads |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| speed.luac | 15.03.2019 | First version, 3.1 KB | 686 |
| v2.0 | 19.05.2019 | Smaller left margin for long nicks, interface moved to the right of the TextDraws, fixed crashes when an NPC is driving and when a player jumps out of the car abruptly | 343 |
| v3 | July 2019 | Last version, 11.6 KB | 1,194 |

In December 2020 I wrote in the thread that the source code was lost. That's why v3 stayed the final version.

## Connection to Police Tools

Speeder is a separate script, but it grew out of the same goal as [Police Tools](https://pakulichev.com/en/projects/police-tools): taking the routine off players in the police factions of Advance RP and other RP servers.

## FAQ

### How do I turn on the Speeder police radar?

Put speed.luac into the moonloader folder and type /speeder in the game. On startup the script posts a message in chat saying it has been initialized.

### What does the radar need to run?

CLEO 4, SAMPFUNCS and MoonLoader 0.26 with the moonloader library that ships with it.

### Will Speeder get updates?

No. In December 2020 Pakulichev wrote that the radar's source code had been lost, so version 3 remains the last one.