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Use of CCTV for parking tickets

A Freedom of Information request to Islington Borough Council by R Fraser
" R Fraser

25 November 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am enquiring about the use of CCTV for parking enforcement, which
I believe is called approved devices under the Traffic MAnagement
act 2004.

Dft publishes guidance for this at
http://www.dft.gov.uk/adobepdf/165240/24...
which says

"Motorists may regard enforcement by cameras as over-zealous and
authorities should use them sparingly. The Secretary of State
recommends that authorities put up signs to tell drivers that they
are using cameras to detect contraventions. ... The Secretary of
State recommends that approved devices are used only where
enforcement is difficult or sensitive and CEO enforcement is not
practical."

In the light of this can you please answer the following.

1.) Does the authority issue parking tickets using approved
devices, whether fixred or mounted on vehicles, and if so what is
the equipment used ?
2.) Will you please supply a list of locations in the area covered
where enforcement is difficult or sensitive or impractical as
described above, together with the reason ?
3.) Please list in which of these locations signs have been put up
as suggested in the guidance document.
4.) Please supply a list of all locations in your borough where
parking tickets have been issuied through the use of approved
devices, together with the numbers issued this year.

Thanks.

Yours faithfully,

R Fraser"

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