warning about cameras in Scotland

[crockers]

Scottish speed cameras to get digital upgrade


Article by: Darren Griffin
Date: 24 Jan 2013


If you drive on Scottish roads then you'll need to take even more care than usual as their speed cameras are being upgraded from wet film to digital operation.

The Scottish Government has approved a £2.4m spend to upgrade all fixed road-side speed cameras to digital and connect them to speed camera partnership offices. The upgrade will remove the need for cameras to be visited and film removed for processing.

As with the current system, not every cameras will be live, the digital cameras units will be rotated around the network with the number of dummy cameras remaining the same. But, unlike the current system where live cameras may be inoperative having used up all the film available, the digitally cameras will not be constrained by lack of film.

The upgrade also adds the ability to monitor them 24hrs a day to detect faults or interference.

 

[coupe deville]

warning about cameras in Stevenage

Delivery man in blunder loses his job - Barnsley News from the Barnsley Chronicle

 

[st4]

We have comparitively few cameras. A few too many on the A90 between Dundee and Aberdeen but our roads are relatively free of them, the good ones anyway.

 

[davidjpowell]

Delivery man in blunder loses his job - Barnsley News from the Barnsley Chronicle

Ouch. At this stage only an accusation though. Wrongful dismissal?

 

[flango]

My next door neighbour did THIS and got jailed for the privilege

 

[st4]

My next door neighbour did THIS and got jailed for the privilege

In one sense it's ace but in another it is criminal damage to public property so prison is the place for him.

 

[brucemillar]

A clear case of unfair dismissal and glaring incompetence on behalf of his management who simply used this as a reason to sack him. Would have been nice to think that he worked for a company that supported their employees and would have wanted to know the truth before acting. They should now sack his manager gross negligence and incompetence.

 

[brucemillar]

FYI:

I believe that I am still in the Scottish law books with my case used as a precedence in defending speeding cases over 100mph. In my case the Police were found to have been less than truthful (being polite here) in their evidence. Added to this was the fact that their VASCAR was not working correctly (they forgot to mention that). Their schoolboy attempts to copy each others notes brought laughter to the courts and shame on them. They actually copied each others incorrect spellings in their "independent" notes.

Why did they do all of this? Who knows it was and still is something only known to them. I was polite when stopped (they admitted that). They also said I was alone in the car. Hmmmm. They missed the fact that my wife was sat in the passenger seat and had rather helpfully taken some pics of them as they sat with me in their car.

Did it turn me against the police? No. It turned me against these two officers and a court system that is geared in favour of the police. A procurator fiscal who was allowed in court to tell me I was a "Consumate Liar who had come to Scotland to insult the intelligence of their law courts". When proved wrong!!! Not even a hint of shame from this guy, let alone an apology. Shame on them.

 

[MOCAŠ]

My next door neighbour did THIS and got jailed for the privilege

Surely these cameras are just set at (or slightly above) the overall limit for the road? Would they really flash a car at 50 but a truck at 40?

 

[MOCAŠ]

Ouch. At this stage only an accusation though. Wrongful dismissal?

And while he's about it, he could report them for paying him less than two-thirds of the national minimum wage.

 

[st4]

Closing thread. This is meant to be about speed cameras in Scotland, not employment law