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.