1. Official! Speed cops are a dying breed
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

This is not the way to enforce road safety standards. New Government figures reveal traffic police are offically a dying breed – with some forces slashing patrols by up to 84 per cent. The Depa

2. Huge cost of speed cam abuse
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

... anti-camera brigade is one on the B1296 Old Durham Road in Gateshead. In the past 18 months, Northumbria Safety Camera Partnership has spent £25,020 on repairs to 11 damaged cameras. Anti-spee...

3. I am a nice, normal guy... but these cameras have to go
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...ensuring speeding drivers cannot be caught. While some motorists support the group and its actions, road safety campaigners have criticised the moves, which often include setting fire to cameras. Ho...

4. News of the World: Flash of anger
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

... growing as drivers become more fed-up. We have disabled more than 1,000 cameras since 2000.” Road safety group Brake said: “Speed cameras are there to protect lives.” And the Depa...

5. Town votes to ditch speed cameras
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...e their introduction). We said it was a tax pure and simple - if the cameras had anything to do with road safety they would have been sited outside schools, hospitals and on our High Streets. But they...

6. Captain Gatso: New speed cameras will cost £6,500 EACH!
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...e UK using wet film will be replaced. Below is a press release explaining it all. A first for Herts as safety cameras go digital New hi-tech digital safety cameras are being installed around Hertf...

7. Captain Gatso: M11 at Chigwell fiasco
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...back. The people contacting me have been telling me that they have letters from the Essex Police and the Safety Camera Partnership but they have decided not to 'take any further action on this oc...

8. Captain Gatso: The end is nigh (for speed cameras!)
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...r the Partnership, this happened back in last September, so this idea CAN work! The West of England Road Safety Partnership where the Group who made the headlines after buying Cameras to watch the Ca...

9. Speed cameras are turning Brits into WORSE drivers, new research claims
(News/General)

...people think cameras have an adverse effect on their driving – they were introduced to improve road safety.” ...

10. Drivers in one county pay out £1.7m for speed courses
(News/Police and The Law)

...y Lancashire Police. The courses, which cost each driver around £90 and are run by Lancashire Road Safety Group, are offered in place of the usual £60 fine and three points. A spokesman ...

11. ‘Gatsos distract British drivers’
(News/Police and The Law)

...people think cameras have an adverse effect on their driving – they were introduced to improve road safety.” ...

12. Three police workers face speeding ticket probe
(News/Police and The Law)

...n a robust manner as they have committed what appears to be fraud trying to bump their numbers up for the safety targets. "This is, I would suggest, is also perverting the course of justice. The ...

13. Drivers' curse takes over county's roads
(News/Police and The Law)

...e speed traps. In fact the number now is more like 360, according to the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety. And that does not include 'sites of community concern', where mobile cameras c...

14. Captain Gatso: Have police crackdowns for all crimes
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...Suffolk during a week-long campaign. Almost 1,500 were caught by police officers and Suffolk's mobile Safety Camera Partnership cameras and a further 364 were caught by fixed cameras in the county...

15. Just TWO speeding tickets and you could be banned from driving
(News/Police and The Law)

Drivers face being banned for only two speeding offences under a draconian shake-up of road safety laws. Motorists caught going well over the limit would receive six points - double the current penal

16. Speed convictions halve after lessons
(News/General)

...he speed limit in 30mph zones have been able to avoid collecting penalty points by attending a three-hour safety workshop. More than 86,000 motorists were caught speeding in Northamptonshire during t...

17. UK roads littered with danger
(News/General)

...monly seen. Despite these results, drivers still show no real interest in purchasing vehicles with extra safety features. Two-thirds of motorists have no plans to get a car equipped with Electronic S...

18. Fuel shortages - don't panic!
(News/General)

... could lead to shortages. Ineos claims it could have to close its refinery at Grangemouth for a month on safety grounds ahead of a strike by 1,200 members of the Unite union. Industry analysts say t...

19. Improvement needed in UK road maintenance
(News/General)

...able to maintain their roads in a fit and proper condition, commensurate with traffic efficiency and road safety, rather than on what seems to be the current 'patch and mend' basis."...

20. Lothian and Borders is Scottish speeding fine hotspot
(News/Police and The Law)

...in 2006-7 – generating £6.8 million for the Treasury. Jim Dale, the director of the Scottish Safety Camera Programme, said: "There has been a fall in speeding fines because of better...

21. CAPTAIN GATSO: Londoners are the most watched people
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

... People need to wake up and realise that these monitoring systems are not being put in place for our 'safety' or in 'the war against terror'. It's all about control. Start asking ...

22. Captain Gatso: M11 camera needs to come down
(News/Captain Gatso\'s Blog)

...warning signs was, in any sense, fair play? Are they really encouraging drivers to obey a speed limit for safety or do they want thousands of drivers to go over a limit they know nothing about and gen...

23. More speed cameras for Norfolk
(News/Police and The Law)

...ertain hotspots will risk being caught around the clock. Until now only six of the county's 19 fixed safety cameras have been active at any one time with the site at Grapes Hill, Norwich, the onl...

24. Fight a speeding ticket at your peril, say police
(News/Police and The Law)

...hy appeal process meant the case took 16 months to be heard. He claimed the equipment used in the police safety camera van was faulty, but the magistrates threw out his appeal. Officers say that had...

25. EU deal means no escape from that speeding offence on the Continent
(News/General)

... to speeding, jumping red lights, drink-driving and failing to wear a seatbelt, which “imperil road safety” and are involved in almost 75 per cent of all road deaths. The Commission said ...

26. Speed cameras collect over £100m in fines
(News/Police and The Law)

New figures released by the Department for Transport (DfT) revealed that the 38 safety camera partnerships in England and Wales raised £104.4m in 2006/07.       Motorists in

27. Foggy weather beats the cameras
(News/Police and The Law)

...r in fog. Vehicles on the county's road were snapped 36,000 times travelling over the speed limit by safety cameras, including average speed cameras along the A14. Home - Motorists had to battle...

28. Caught on camera - 3,500 drivers refunded speeding fines
(News/Police and The Law)

THOUSANDS of speeding convictions have been overturned after a safety camera was found to be operating illegally for more than a year. The Herts Safety Camera Partnership is refunding around 3,500 fi

29. Councils spending safety grants on speed cameras rather than road improvements
(News/Police and The Law)

Councils are blowing most of their road safety grants on hated speed cameras instead of improving dangerous bends or junctions. New research found local authorities across England spend £80mill

30. Drivers ignore 20mph experiment
(News/Police and The Law)

DRIVERS are ignoring voluntary 20mph speed zones aimed at improving road safety. Checks show average speeds have hardly changed and most drivers are exceeding the 20mph limits introduced in eight are