What is the Departments guidance on the deployment of safety cameras?
The primary objective for camera deployment is to reduce deaths and injuries on roads by reducing the level and severity of speeding and red-light running. Evidence from the independent evaluations of the National Safety Camera Programme (2000-2004) has continuously shown that the use of cameras has been effective when deployment was based upon locations where a specific level of Killed or Seriously Injured collisions and excessive speed had occurred. The Department’s guidance on the future deployment of cameras encourages local partnerships to continue to use the deployment criteria that operated under the national programme. However, partnerships are free to develop their own local deployment criteria to help demonstrate locally that a systematic approach to site selection is in place.
