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bandk Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:53 pm Post subject: Speed cameras to go private? |
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Since quite a few councils are now dropping speed cameras to save money, a good thing in my view, they reckon speed can be kept in check by cheaper means. The ACPO have put forward the idea that speed cameras and hence the revenue they collect should be turned over to private companies.
Anyone else seen this news article? it was on Sky television news earlier in the week. I can see it being open to much abuse ifit does fall into private hands, in fact I can see all the 'satety camera partnerships' rubbing their hands in glee and gearing up to go private already!
Whatever happened to the law of the land being enforced by the police and not private companies? You only have to look at the debacle of clamping companies to see what I mean |
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jc50 Lifetime Member
Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 46
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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I cant see them privatising that function. Where is the revenue going to come from - a % of the fines ?
the whole idea is daft.....like a lot of the ConDem ideas...off the wall!! _________________ "You have reached your destination" |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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It's been outsourced in the US and Australia but I'd be very surprised if we went the same way here. Not impossible though. _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Wazza_G Lifetime Member
Joined: Jan 10, 2006 Posts: 585 Location: Guildford (Regrettibly)
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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The idiots of this country are so inept & dimwitted that they'd sell their mother & their souls to the devil, that's why this countries in the mess it's in now!
Of course they'll do it, you can expect a company with a shareholding MP to take over just like that. All it needs then is for people to take revenge on the operators, like they've done in the US, but of course the people of this country haven't got the spine/backbone to do such a thing. All we do here is roll-over have our tummies ticked & put up with it. _________________ Be alert.. This country needs more lerts. |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
Joined: 11/07/2002 14:36:40 Posts: 23848 Location: Hampshire, UK
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Serco. They've already got contracts for speed camera installation, parking enforcement as well as the London Bike Hire scheme. All it takes is the greasing of palms and it's a done deal.
Given the Govt has withdrawn funding, all it takes now is for them to say 'well do it for you, cost you nowt and we'll give you all the profits after our costs' and they'll bite their hands off.
The stumbling block will be joe public. Will we lie down and let law enforcement be handed over to the private sector? We've done it with parking tickets but I'd hope this would be a step too far? _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Skippy Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: 24/06/2003 00:22:12 Posts: 2946 Location: Escaped to the Antipodies! 36.83°S 174.75°E
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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Darren wrote: | The stumbling block will be joe public. Will we lie down and let law enforcement be handed over to the private sector? We've done it with parking tickets but I'd hope this would be a step too far? |
I'm hoping it would be. The difference is that it would be rare that someone got killed by a car which overstayed it's pay-and-display time but speeding is a different offence.
I'm hoping that the removal of speed cameras means the motorist is winning the fight back and that the over zealous parking wardens and intrusive enforcement by CCTV will be next.
After all, parking wardens were supposed to be there to keep things moving and a ticket would be a last resort. Now they ticket, clamp and tow people just to make money. _________________ Gone fishing! |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Skippy wrote: | I'm hoping that the removal of speed cameras means the motorist is winning the fight back and that the over zealous parking wardens and intrusive enforcement by CCTV will be next. |
I wouldn't be so certain. I suspect this is no more than a temporary lull. Although I'm over the moon to hear that clampers are to be given the boot at long last. I wonder if it's too much to hope that the new Govt will now stop DVLA selling our details to anyone who asks for them _________________ Darren Griffin |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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Darren wrote: | [Although I'm over the moon to hear that clampers are to be given the boot at long last. |
Have I missed something?
(I was in a bit of a news blackout over the last couple of weeks - I even missed the US getting out of Iraq!) |
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Darren Frequent Visitor
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Skippy Pocket GPS Verifier
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:06 am Post subject: |
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Darren wrote: | I'm over the moon to hear that clampers are to be given the boot at long last. I wonder if it's too much to hope that the new Govt will now stop DVLA selling our details to anyone who asks for them |
Bizarrely, the government appears to endorse the issue of "parking tickets" for parking on private land in preference to clamping even though these "tickets" are completely unenforceable (and I speak from experience here). _________________ Gone fishing! |
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M8TJT The Other Tired Old Man
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 10118 Location: Bexhill, South Sussex, UK
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:32 am Post subject: |
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Skippy wrote: | .... even though these "tickets" are completely unenforceable.... | They will make them enforceable. so that they can still sell your details. Park now, pay later |
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