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[FOI #13840 email]

Mr Dennis Fallon

7 October 2009

Reference: T15861/9

Dear Mr Fallon,

Thank you for your email dated 9 September 2009 in which you ask for information concerning speed cameras. Your request has been handled under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I have numbered the four questions that you raised in your letter and the Home Office response is shown in bold after each item below:

I can confirm that this information is not held by the Home Office. We have no reference to alerts of potentially dangerous features.

2. Please provide disclosure of a document that authorises such `dummy

cameras`to be used,or advise me who has provided permission.

I can confirm that this information is not held by the Home Office.

We have no information on dummy cameras. That is up to the forces or safety camera partnerships.

3. Under FOI please provide a copy of the TA pages that mention the directional switches` and describes the sensitivity of the cameras from both directions.

I can confirm that this information is not held by the Home Office. We do not have TA pages that refer to directional switches describing the sensitivity of cameras from both directions.

4. Please provide a copy of payments made to ACPO or individual police forces for assessing the Type Approval of Gatso speed cameras.

I can confirm that this information is not held by the Home Office.

The police and ACPO are not paid for their type approval work,

Home Office officials never receive costs from companies and the

Home Office does not keep information on any such payments.

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting your complaint to the address below within 2 months of this letter quoting reference: 12948

Information Access Team
Information Management Service
Home Office
Ground Floor, Seacole Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Email: [email address]

During the independent review the department's handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. Should you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you will have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Yours sincerely

Sammy Jegede