SIEMENS (SAFE ZONE) CAMERAS

 Overview
Safezone is now Home Office type approved and can be deployed in cities, towns, villages or on urban and inner urban roads.  It is basically an Average Speed Monitoring system based on the ANPR (Automatic number plate recognition) technology.

Safezone has been designed to be used for 24/7 enforcement and covers speeds from 20mph to 140mph.  It supports multi-lane and multi entry/exit points meaning it can be used for all types of highway scenarios.  

Key components of Safezone:

• The cameras are based on ANPR technology for capturing vehicle data.
• It can be used to enforce short distances in villages and around schools as well as motorways, duel carriageways and also in road works.
• Enforces speed limits from 20mph – 140mph.
• Can be installed on existing street furniture such as telegraph poles.
• Was first trialled on Springdale Road in Poole, Dorset and is now being rolled used in Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire.

South Gloucestershire Council to Sell Safety Cameras to Police

From reading a BBC news post from this month it would appear that South Gloucestershire police are planning to purchase 23 Unused speed cameras for a "nominal sum". The cameras in question have been turned off since March 2011 after the safety camera partnership was disbanded.

At a planning and transport committee meeting, councillors voted to transfer them to the police as which will allow them to be operated at no cost to the authority.

South Gloucestershire Council currently owns:

• eight digital speed cameras
• three digital red light cameras
• five film speed camera installations
• seven film red light camera

these are considered by the council as no longer cost-effective to run.

Since back in December 2013 chief constable of Avon and Somerset Constabulary offered to buy any digital speed or red light cameras from local councils unwilling to operate them for £1 each we are guessing that it really is a small amount that the cameras have been purchased for

Read the Full story on our site Radar-Detectors.co.uk

Sources: BBC