Red light cameras - 1177/18

Date Responded 23 November 2018

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

1.Please disclose the locations of all the 'red light cameras' in your patch.

For clarity, these are the cameras mounted on traffic lights to catch motorists driving through red light.

2.For 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 (up to today's date)

a.Please disclose how many drivers were fined for driving through a red light. Please give these figures as a breakdown for each light.

b. Please disclose how many of the total number of fines administered were successfully appealed

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Fixed Penalty Unit of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held in part by Northumbria Police.

To provide information which meets the criteria of your request, particularly at question 2(b) would entail a member of staff manually searching over 10,000 records. Even at a conservative estimate of 2 minutes per record, which we have considered as reasonable, we have estimated that to extract this information would take over 347 hours, therefore Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act would apply. This section does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimated that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit of 18 hours, equating to £450.00

You should consider this to be a refusal notice under Section 17 of the Act for your request.

When applying Section 12 exemption our duty to assist under Section 16 of the Act would normally entail that we contact you to determine whether it is possible to refine the scope of your request to bring it within the cost limits. However, from the information we have outlined above I see no reasonable way in which we can do so.

Although excess cost removes Northumbria Police's obligations under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, as a gesture of goodwill I have supplied information below, relative to your request, retrieved or available before it was realised that the fees limit would be exceeded. I trust this is helpful, but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fees regulations for the remainder of your request.

1 C401 Hawthorn Road, Ashington	Northumberland	Red Light Camera Site
2 A1147 Moorland Crossroads, Bedlington	Northumberland	Red Light Camera Site
3 A193 Byker Bridge, Newcastle	Newcastle	Red Light Camera Site
4 A193 High Street, Station Road, Wallsend	North Tyneside	Red Light Camera Site
5 A184 Park Road, Felling Bypass	Gateshead	Red Light Camera Site
6 A184 Felling Bypass	Gateshead	Red Light Camera Site
7 A167 Durham Road	Gateshead	Red Light Camera Site
8 A167 Durham Road Ped Crossing	Gateshead	Red Light Camera Site
9 A195 Lingey Lane	Gateshead	Red Light Camera Site
10 A185 Albert Road, Jarrow	South Tyneside	Red Light Camera Site
15/16 Ryhope Road	Sunderland	Red Light Camera Site
17 A1018 North Bridge Street	Sunderland	Red Light Camera Site
18/19 Charlton Road	Sunderland	Red Light Camera Site
20 Hylton Road, Kayll Road	Sunderland	Red Light Camera Site
21/22 A690 Durham Road	Sunderland	Red Light Camera Site
23 C106 Callerton Parkway e/24 C106 Callerton Parkway w	Newcastle	Red Light Camera Site
25 C107 Bankfoot, Newcastle - ne/26 C107 Bankfoot, Newcastle - sw	Newcastle	Red Light Camera Site
27 C101 Kingston Park, Newcastle - n/28 C101 Kingston Park, Newcastle - s	Newcastle	Red Light Camera Site

2a. 2015 – 1238

2016 – 4051

2017 – 2771

2018 – 2355 (up to 14/11/2018)

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.