Measurement of speed limit compliance and enforcement
Dear Lancashire Constabulary,
Please supply information on the enforcement effort to achieve
speed limit compliance and on the attainment of compliance, for
each year over the past four years, as follows.
Expenditure on roads policing.
Number of mobile speed camera deployments.
Number of fixed camera sites.
Number of speed limit prosecutions and/or fixed penalty
enforcements.
Number of warning letters sent.
For 20mph, 30mph, 40mph, 50mph and 60mph speed limits respectively,
please provide the median speed measured at all camera locations
and the median speed for all offences prosecuted or subjected to
fixed penalty enforcement.
Please provide the number of killed, seriously injured, and
slightly injured road casualties.
To assist comparison with other police areas, please also provide
the Lancashire Constabulary area's total budget and its total
population.
Yours faithfully,
John Coyne
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Good Morning,
I write to you with regards to your Freedom of Information request below
which we received on 1^st March, reference 1505/16.
Upon reading your request, the information owner asked us if you are you
able to clarify what you mean by ‘mobile speed developments’. By this, do
you mean either the number of mobile sites or the number of times each
mobile technician has attended a different site or does it mean each tour
of duty for the past four years?
Also, are you able to clarify what you mean by ‘the number of speed limit
prosecutions and/or fixed penalty enforcements’. Do you mean how many
conditional offers of fixed penalties resulted from mobile and fixed
camera enforcement or possibly how many NIP/S172 requests as some will
result in a prosecution if for example the speed is too high for a
conditional offer?
Please also clarify what you mean by the ‘number of warning letters sent’.
What kind of warning letter do you mean? Do you mean for example vehicles
driving at 35mph in a 30mph limit who get a warning instead of a NIP/S172
or do you mean warning letters to people who are unable to identify the
driver?
When you are asking for ‘the median speed measured at all camera locations
and the median speed for all offences prosecuted or subjected to fixed
penalty enforcement’, please can you clarify that you are only requesting
camera data and not office issued tickets and report for summon cases.
Finally, please can you clarify when you ask for ‘the number of killed,
seriously injured, and slightly injured road casualties’, are we right to
say that you mean for the country in the four years rather than particular
locations?
The ‘clock’ counting down the 20 working day protocol for disclosure will
be stopped until clarification has been received from yourself. I.e.
clarification has been sought on the 1^st day, therefore when
clarification has been received we shall still have 19 working days to
deal with your request.
Please note that if we do not receive any clarification from you be
advised that your request will be closed with no further action after 20
working days.
If there is anything further you would like to discuss, please do not
hesitate to contact the team.
Regards
Compliance Team
Professional Standards Department
Information Compliance and Disclosure Section
Lancashire Constabulary Headquarters
Tel: 01772 413203
Email: [Lancashire Constabulary request email]
Dear Information assurance unit,
Thank you for looking at my request. I will try to clarify, as follows.
(1) By "Number of mobile speed camera deployments" I am looking for a measure of the enforcement effort deployed through the use of mobile speed detection equipment. This may be measured by the number of mobile sites which have been operational in any year for speed limit enforcement, but if a site is revisited then that should count as two "deployments", as I have called it.
(2) By "Number of speed limit prosecutions and/or fixed penalty enforcements" I am looking for a measure of the number of times the police have decided to take action to punish a speeding offence. I think this would be the number of NIP (Notice of Intended Prosecution) notices sent.
(3) By "Number of warning letters sent" I mean the number of warnings about speed limit violations which are deemed not to warrant a NIP; I am not asking about warning letters to people who are unable to identify the driver.
(4) Yes. I am only asking about camera data in this part of the request.
(5) Please provide the number of killed, seriously injured, and slightly injured road casualties just for the Lancashire Constabulary area, for each of the four years.
Yours sincerely,
John Coyne
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this as a formal acknowledgement.
Your request will now be considered in accordance with the Freedom of
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the Act (from when Lancashire Constabulary receive a valid request).
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or containing a reference to a third party.
Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to
another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest
possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Lancashire Constabulary.
Regards,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION TEAM
Lancashire Constabulary
Information Assurance and Vetting
Police Headquarters
Tel: 01772 413324 Web: [1]www.lancashire.police.uk
Email: [2][Lancashire Constabulary request email]
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 1505/16
Please find attached Lancashire Constabulary’s response to your recent
request for information made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Lancashire Constabulary.
Regards,
Compliance Team
Professional Standards Department
Information Compliance and Disclosure Section
Lancashire Constabulary Headquarters
Tel: 01772 413329
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Election "imprint", applicable until 5th May 2016. The author of this FoI request is currently the Green Party candidate for the election of Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside. This request is promoted by John Coyne at 86 Belgrave Road L17 7AH, web site www.coyne4pcc.org