Speed Cameras - 848/19

Date Responded 15 July 2019

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:

How many speed cameras do you have in your area?
How many of those speed cameras are active at this precise moment in time?
How many times did you deploy mobile speed cameras in your area between 1st January 2018 to 31st December 2018?

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Operations Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose some of the located information to you as follows.

Within the Northumbria Police force area we have 25 actual speed cameras.
The number of cameras that were active at the time of the request was 4.
Within the Northumbria Police force area we deployed mobile speed cameras 1,739 times during the period mentioned.

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.