Slower Derbyshire

I enclose a copy of a paper entitled Human Rights and Speed Enforcement that I have spent a considerable amount of time and effort preparing. It details how the government, police and councils are contravening the Human Rights Act with regard to speed enforcement. I believe that two policies that Derbyshire Constabulary could take to rectify this situation are:

• use covert/overt speed detection on roads that fail to qualify under current Safety Camera Partnershp guidelines
• setup a Community Speedwatch program under the Safety Camera Partnership

This is what I wrote last year regarding a Community Speed Watch program:

• This would allow communities that believe they have a speeding problem to be able to make them safer themselves. I believe that this would be geatly appreciated in communities that currently have very little or no speed enforcement at present (e.g. most villages in Derbyshire).
• I can think of no other preventable criminal act other than speeding that routinely causes so much death, injury and personal misery. All road users should be able to use the roads free of fear and anxiety.

The reply I received stated "Derbyshire has no plans to adopt a Community Speed Watch programme, instead Beat Officers have the facility to enforce speed limits in response to local community concerns". I couldn't determine whether the response was intended to be facetious or not! If Hulland Ward had a "beat officer" why would we have mobile station visits!? I do not believe I have ever seen an officer performing speed enforcement in Hulland Ward.

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