Speed camera
DOZENS of Merseyside’s speed cameras will be turned off – because there is not enough money to operate them.
The Merseyside Road Safety Partnership learned earlier this month that it was facing a 27% cut in funding, but insisted at the time that it would maintain the same number of “yellow box” cameras at the roadside.
But the Daily Post can reveal that, while all 90 cameras on Merseyside will stay in place, the number actually operating at any one time will be significantly reduced.
The drop in funding means there are not enough back office staff to prosecute the same number of speeding drivers.
Dave Foulkes, the manager of the Merseyside Road Safety Partnership, said: “We’re not losing cameras, we are maintaining our numbers of cameras.
“But if you lose back office staff you lose the capability to maintain all of those prosecutions. You cannot process as many, so you don’t deploy as many cameras.
“We’re not getting rid of them, we’re just not deploying as many.”
