FOI Speed Camera Tolerance (0677-2022/23)

Request

Q1. Police forces have a "tolerence" level related to when their speed cameras activate if a driver is travelling above the legal limit. For instance, a police force's "tolerence" may be 10% plus 2mph. In that case, on a 30mph road, a camera would not normally activate unless a car drove past at 35mph or higher.
Please can you disclose the current "tolerence" level used by your force's speed cameras?

Q2. If your force's "tolerence" level for speed cameras has ever changed since November 1, 2017, please can you provide a list of the dates for when each change to the level was made, and what it changed to and from?

Q3. For every month since November 2017, please can you disclose the number of warnings of prosecution sent to motorists for speeding?
N.B. for this question, if the figures are collated in a different way - for instance by quarter instead of by month - please provide this instead.
Similarly, if the force holds data for less that five years, please provide the maximum available.
For this question I am, essentially, looking for data on the number of speeding tickets issued by the force throughout the past 5 years, or as close to that time period as possible.

Response

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.

Q1. North Yorkshire Police speeding enforcement starts at 10% +2mph across all speed limits.

Q2. No – tolerance levels have always been as above

Q3. The information you have requested is published on the North Yorkshire Police website under the following link

Safety Camera Deployment | North Yorkshire Police

I have therefore decided to exempt providing you with a response pursuant to Section 21 Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act).

Section 17 of the Act requires North Yorkshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt) to provide you the applicant with a notice which: (a) states that fact, (b) specifies the exemption in question and (c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.

Section 21 – Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means

Section 21 is an absolute class based exemption and I am not required to consider the harm or public interest when applying this exemption.

Pursuant to Section 17(1) of the Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice in response to your request.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.