West Midlands Police      Freedom 
of 
Information 
Request reference: 3513/10 
 
Regarding issue 3 you confirm that all mobile sites are declared and that the 
figure of 24 is correct. I am aware that mobile enforcement has been occurring 
on the Aston Expressway, A38(M), but this information is missing from your 
response presumably because it is a discontinued site. 
 
Please advise the period when mobile enforcement of the A38(M) was 
commenced and when it was discontinued. 
 
Please advise if the mobile unit would have been parked on the hard shoulder 
together with the mobile signage, or whether the mobile unit would have been 
located on an overhead crossing.There does not appear to be any convenient 
lay-by on the A38(M). 
 
Please advise if enforcement on the A38(M) was carried out in both directions, 
the KSI figures which initiated the deployment strategy, and the reasons for 
discontinuation of deployment. 
 
No information is held. The Casualty Reduction Scheme have never conducted 
mobile enforcement on A38(M) Aston Expressway. As The Casualty Reduction 
Scheme control the only mobile vans within the Force area it is difficult to see how 
mobile enforcement could have taken place, unless it has occurred outside the West 
Midlands Police area. If that is the case some relevant information may be held by 
another public authority. 
 
Regarding the accuracy of information on the camera website, please advise 
when the camera on the A45 Coventry Road, westbound South Yardley, was 
repositioned and why it still is not being displayed on the website. 
 
The aim of the camera map on the Casualty Reduction website is to show motorists 
the camera sites which are useable under our deployment strategy. Camera sites are 
therefore only added to the website when they are fully commissioned and ready to 
use, and the installation date given on the website is the date when the site was 
commissioned. This site has not yet been commissioned and it is therefore not 
displayed. 
 
Work to relocate the camera housing was reported as complete by Birmingham City 
Council on 4 March 2009. An exact date for when the work was actually completed is 
not held by West Midlands Police. 
 
The above date only relates to when the housing itself was installed. Before the site 
can be used the power supply needs to be connected, and both signing and 
secondary check marks need to be put in place. Only when this work is complete can 
the site be commissioned and brought into use. 
 
This site will be commissioned in the near future. 
 
West Midlands Police in complying with their statutory duty under sections 1 and 11 of the Freedom of Information 
Act 2000 to release the enclosed information will not breach the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. However, 
the rights of the copyright owner of the enclosed information will continue to be protected by law.  Applications for the 
copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of the attached information should be addressed to The 
Force Solicitor, West Midlands Police Headquarters, Lloyd House, Colmore Circus Queensway, Birmingham, B4 
6NQ. 
20/05/10  
 
Ref: 
3513/10 

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