Cambridgeshire Speed Campaign Benefits From New Database

RobBrady

Residents of Cambridgeshire are hoping to benefit from safer roads as a new database is launched to assist with the current Speedwatch campaign.

The scheme allows local residents to erect temporary speed cameras to help catch offending motorists.

The information collected by the cameras is then used to send the drivers letters which warn them about their driving, helping them to adjust this whilst avoiding formal prosecution through a speeding ticket.

David McCandless, one of the scheme's co-ordinators, told the Cambridge News and Crier that the warning letter was designed to give drivers the "jolt" they needed, highlighting the need for them to adjust their speed.

Since records began, as many as 10,000 drivers out of 12,243 vehicles checked have been caught speeding by the community cameras in the St Ives area alone. This huge percentage of speeders raises many questions in itself!

The cameras used in the scheme were placed over twelve different areas within St Ives and are said to have completed over four hundred speed check sessions.

Statistics for other areas showed similar results with Ramsey finding more than three thousand people guilty of speeding since June 2010. These speed checks were held over more than one hundred sessions, covering twelve villages and towns in the area.

To help residents improve the scheme further, a new database is being launched for the campaign. McCandless explained that this would see a combined records database for the community used, making it quicker to check vehicle details such as whether there is insurance or a valid MOT.

Is this type of verification just one more step towards communities helping to diminish the need for more police officers?

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technik · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:23 pm Post subject:

Anyone with a PC and internet connection can check the MIB database to check if a vehicle is insured.

Somehow I think this is just a scare mongering tactic that in reality will not be in the hands of the OAP volunteers.

Most of the Community Speed Watch signs here were ripped down afew days after they appeared.
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MaFt · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:57 am Post subject:

JaTe · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:52 am Post subject:

Seems to me this could possibly be nothing more than Cambs taking on a format that other Forces have already instigated, whereby local residents are trained to use Police radar guns and then they forward the offenders vehicle details to the Force, for warning letters to be sent out.
My road is a 'race track' at times but enforcement is low - presumably due to other operational Police commitments. I could have a hey-day with a radar gun!
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MaFt · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:05 pm Post subject:

But at the end of the day they have no legal standing. I could phone the police every 10 minutes and whine at them saying "a car just drove too fast" or "there's a car parked on double yellow lines". That's basically what these people are doing albeit with a pointless news report about it.

The police can do nothing unless they witness it with their own eyes. Until then it's just hearsay.

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M8TJT · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:23 pm Post subject:

Buity apparantly they can send you a letter Shocked

MaFt · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:42 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:18 pm Post subject:

I hope you frame it when it arrives M8 Very Happy

That's if MaFt can find a stamp....
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DennisN · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:55 pm Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:56 pm Post subject:

Reply to that nice Mr. MaFt's letter. Bog Off

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