FOI 2061-25 AI-speed camera statistics

Request:

1. How many Notices of Intended Prosecution (NIPs) for speeding were issued to drivers in the financial years (a) 2022/23 and (b) 2023/24. Please provide a break down of the number of NIPs issues for each calendar month starting with January 2022 and running until December 2024.

2. As of the 1st January 2025 (or the closest convenient date), how many AI-enabled cameras, which can provide evidence to assist in the prosecution of road traffic offences, are currently sited on roads within your area of responsibility?

3. From these AI-enabled cameras, how many Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP) have been distributed? Please break down the data by calendar month from the start of their operation and broken down by the type of offence that was registered? Eg, speeding, not wearing a seatbelt, using a mobile phone, etc.

4. Please indicate whether you will be launching or increasing the number of AI-enabled cameras on your roads, and when this is expected to be, and how many AI-cameras you expect to install.

Response:

Question 1

I have to advise you that Northamptonshire Police is not obliged to provide this information you have requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please take this letter as a Refusal Notice to this particular request.

Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires Northamptonshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt within the provisions of the Act) is required to provide you, the applicant, with a Notice which:

a) states the fact that an exemption has been applied
b) specifies the exemption in question, and
c) states why the exemption applies (if that would not otherwise be apparent)

The statutory exemption applicable to the information not disclosed is as follows:

Section 21 - Information reasonably accessible by other means

This is an Absolute Class Based Exemption and is therefore not subject to a harm or public interest test.

The information you require is readily available from the Northamptonshire Police website, Safer Roads Public Access System. Please see the following link below:

On the roads | Northamptonshire Police

The disposal data will not be available until 6 months after the offence data to allow for the offences to complete.

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