Your original request asked for the following
information:
Period: January 2007 to December 2009:
Location of mobile speed recording units in the
Constabulary's area of operation
Date of placement
Speed limit applying to the route
How long was the unit operating?
How many vehicles were recorded as exceeding the set
speed limit?
How many drivers exceeded the ACPO guidelines for that
limit will be offered a Speed Awareness Course and at what recorded
speed does this option cease. (If this is standard at 10% +5 mph
then merely confirm that fact).
How many drivers exceeded the ACPO guidelines for that
limit and will receive a Court Summons?
How many Road Traffic Accidents have been recorded at
the location of the camera placement in the period?
How many of these involved more than one vehicle?
How many of these involved pedestrians?
How many of these involved injury to
drivers/riders/pedestrians?
I explained in my response that to determine the
location that each unit was used at for each day for the period in
question, three years, would require a search of manual records for
the period concerned, a task that would take approximately 90
hours.
The records that exist are paper based logs of
deployment. Approximately 12 months worth have been entered onto a
spreadsheet. It is those records that would need to be examined to
answer the first part of your request: 'Location of mobile speed
recording units in the Constabulary's area of operation'
From those answers we would then have to use the
information to retrieve the answers to the following from the paper
based logs.:
Date of placement
How long was the unit operating?
The VF/FPO database holds information in relation to
the processing of fixed penalty notices and is jointly operated by
the Central Ticket Office and the Magistrates Courts. That system
would have to be examined to retrieve the following from the
answers supplied previously.
How many vehicles were recorded as exceeding the set
speed limit?
How many drivers exceeded the ACPO guidelines for that
limit will be offered a Speed Awareness Course and at what recorded
speed does this option cease. (If this is standard at 10% +5 mph
then merely confirm that fact).
How many drivers exceeded the ACPO guidelines for that
limit and will receive a Court Summons?
The VF/FPO database does not lend itself to produce
such statistical data and as such this also would require a manual
search of records.
In respect of the following questions I have already
directed you to where that information is already available.
Speed limit applying to the route
How many Road Traffic Accidents have been recorded at
the location of the camera placement in the period?
How many of these involved more than one vehicle?
How many of these involved pedestrians?
How many of these involved injury to
drivers/riders/pedestrians?
To summarise
To answer you first question would by itself exceed
the appropriate limit. To go further would take an inordinate
amount of time. We record data for our purposes and not to create
information for other purposes including the FOI Act.
I will also bring to your attention Section 14 of the
Act , vexatious request and the Information Commissioners guidance
in relation to that section.
The FOI Act should be used responsibly. Requests that in our
opinion have no serious purpose or value and which impose a
significant burden on the Authority will be refused.