CCTV and ANPR data request for Aylesbury

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Dear Mr Dayking

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REGULATIONS 2004 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for contacting Buckinghamshire County Council.

Your request for information has now been considered and the information you have requested is as follows:

In our code of practices (available at the link below) we have stated that we would like to keep a lot of information on camera locations and the overall system on our website, therefore shortly we will update our UTMC (Urban Traffic Management and Control) webpages to include this.

However, in answer to the questions:

As of April 2011 the ANPR system comprised 11 cameras across Aylesbury and the surrounding area which will inform the Council's traffic management system of journey times (mainly into Aylesbury). The cameras were located at:

A41 Bicester Road, Waddesdon
A418 Oxford Road / Gatehouse Road
A418 Oxford Road, Stone
A4010 Station Road, Stoke Mandeville
A413 Wendover Road, Stoke Mandeville
A413 Walton Street
Not used
A41 Exchange Street
A4146 Fenny Stratford Bypass, Milton Keynes
A418 Bierton Road
A413 High Street, Whitchurch
A413 New Street

As of April 2011 the CCTV system comprises of 19 pan, tilt, zoom cameras across the major junctions in Aylesbury. Camera locations are at the following sites:

A418 Oxford Road / Fowler Road
A413 Walton Street / Walton Road
A413 Wendover Road / Stoke Road
A413 Walton Street / Exchange Street
B4443 Old Stoke Road Railway Bridge
A41 Tring Road / King Edward Avenue
A418 Park Street / Vale Park Drive
A418 Bierton Road / Douglas Road
A413 Buckingham Road / Elmhurst Road
A418 Oxford Road / Gatehouse Road
A413 Buckingham Road / Watermead
A41 Bicester Road / Gatehouse Road
A41 Bicester Road / Broadfields
A418 Oxford Road / Coldharbour Way
A413 Wendover Road / Station Road, Stoke Mandeville
A41 Aston Clinton Road at Woodland roundabout
A41 Bicester Road at Berryfields junction
A41 Tring Road / Bedgrove
B4443 Mandeville Road / Churchill Avenue

and 2 fixed cameras to monitor the rising bollards at Fowler Road and Lark Vale, Aylesbury Fairford Leys Way / Fowler Road Lark Vale / Cleveland Park.

The list above does not include other BCC CCTV cameras in non 'public space' positions e.g. cameras used for security around the County Hall complex and within buildings. BCC has 75 such cameras (the majority, 48, being internal).

The code of practices detail how long we retain data, this being:

CCTV: Images will not be retained for longer than 14 days, unless they are required by the Council, Police or other regulatory body due to an incident having occurred.

ANPR: BCC will not receive any vehicle image data from the ANPR cameras. BCC will only receive the depersonalised Vehicle Registration Number (VRN) of each vehicle that passes through a camera. This data will be automatically processed by software to provide average journey time information to the control room operatives. This processed (non personal) journey time information can be kept indefinitely for network management purposes.

You might also be interested in this additional information available on our public website:

http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/moderngov/mgIs...

If you have any further queries or concerns then please contact us.

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http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/sites/bcc/abou...
Or by writing to:
FOI Monitoring Officer
Head of Legal and Democratic Services
Buckinghamshire County Council
County Hall
Aylesbury
Bucks
HP20 1UA
Or via email: [Buckinghamshire County Council request email]

You can also then complain to the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113
Fax: 01625 524510
Email: [email address]
http://www.ico.gov.uk/

Regards
Customer Insight Team
[Buckinghamshire County Council request email]
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/foi/freedo...
Buckinghamshire County Council
County Hall
Walton Street
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP20 1UA

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