FOI 12747
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 12747
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 10th October 2019. Please find below the response to your request:
The request is specific to your police force and concerns the calibration of speed and traffic cameras.
My research on this subject has lead me to believe that Home Office regulations require speed and traffic cameras to be calibrated annually; please correct me if this is wrong.
My questions are as follows:
- How many speed and traffic (EG red-light) cameras is your police force responsible for that require calibration? Please specify the number of a) handheld speed b) fixed speed and c) traffic cameras.
Reply 1: a) 3
b) 11
c) 18
- How many devices were found to be outside approved tolerances in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 to date? Please break these figures down both on year-by-year basis and, if possible, according to whether the devices found to be outside of tolerance are a) handheld speed b) fixed speed or c) traffic cameras. If you do not have historic data going back this far, please provide me with as much data as you have available.
Reply 2: None
- Please state whether your force has any process in place to either void, or in some other way treat differently, Penalty Charge Notices issued to motorists who were detected breaching traffic laws by devices that were subsequently found to be outside Home Office tolerances. Please also inform me what these processes are, if they exist.
- If possible, please inform me how many motorists were detected speeding by devices that were outside tolerance in the years set out above. Please provide a year-by-year breakdown.
- Please inform me how many speeding or traffic-offence PCNs were cancelled during the years in question (2014-present) as a result of cameras found to be outside of tolerance. Please provide a year-by-year breakdown of this data, together with a breakdown of whether these cancellations were for speeding or other traffic offences.
Reply 3, 4 & 5: Not applicable, see Reply 2 above.