Please note: The Safety Camera Partnership in West Mercia will no longer be supplying a list of planned mobile speed camera locations. They say keeping their locations secret will be more effective in controlling the speed of traffic. Let us know if you think this will help reduce speeding using the 'have your say' box at the bottom of this page. Communications Manager, Vicki Bristow, says: "We're finding it increasingly difficult to accurately predict where we will be enforcing over the coming weeks, due to maintenance schedules, changed priorities at sites and general site conditions. "Our staff must have flexibility to change their work locations due to unforeseen circumstances, and we often find ourselves being questioned as to why we were working at a place not on the list, or why we were not working at a site which was. "Giving out information which turns out not to be accurate - even when for reasons beyond our control - is not good." Vicki also agrees that giving a schedule of expected mobile speed camera sites may encourage drivers to exceed speed limits in other areas where they believe cameras are not operating: "We have also been concerned for a while that some drivers may be using the information to determine where and when cameras are active, in turn use this as an 'opportunity' to speed when they believe enforcement may not be taking place." The Safety Camera Partnership plans to increase the information about enforcement sites on their own website.
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