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It has been sent to you because you are registered as the vehicle's owner or keeper or you have been nominated as the new keeper/driver/hirer of the vehicle. This vehicle has been recorded allegedly committing an offence by a safety camera.
Failure to respond will result in a summons to court for failure to provide information.
If you are the driver: You should complete Part One of the NIP, sign and return it. In most cases you will then be sent a Conditional Offer of a Fixed Penalty. If you already have more than eight points on your licence the matter will be referred directly to court.
If you own the vehicle, but weren't the driver: You must complete Part Two of the NIP with the drivers details, sign and return it.
If it is a company vehicle: You must complete Part Two of the NIP with the driver's details, sign and return it.
If the vehicle is a rental / hire vehicle: You must complete Part Three of the NIP with the hirers details, sign and return it, enclosing a copy of the hire agreement.
If you sold the vehicle prior to the offence: You must complete Part Four of the NIP with the details of the person to whom you sold the vehicle and return it.
DO NOT PASS THE FORM OVER TO THE OTHER PERSON YOU HAVE NOMINATED. THEY WILL RECEIVE THEIR OWN NOTICE AT A LATER DATE.
Failure to provide the requested information may result in a summons to court for failure to provide information.
The paperwork will be returned for you to sign in the relevant spaces. If you still refuse to sign the paperwork a police officer will be sent to interview you and you will be prosecuted in court for any offences disclosed.
As long as you have no more than eight points on your licence you will be sent a Conditional Offer of a Fixed Penalty which will give you the opportunity to settle the matter without going to court. The conditional offer is a fine of £60.00 and three penalty points endorsed on your licence.
If you accept the conditional offer you will have to pay a penalty of £60 and have your licence endorsed. Should you choose to go to court and are convicted, the Magistrates have the power to impose a fine of up to £2,000 and order six penalty points to be placed on your licence. If the offence is extremely serious they could impose a period of disqualification.
If you are convicted you will also be ordered to pay court costs. The Magistrates will fix the level of fine you pay after taking into account factors such as the speed you were travelling and your income. You could be ordered to pay a lesser amount than the fixed penalty if the circumstances justify it. However, the fine is usually substantially greater than £60 and frequently the Courts will order more than three penalty points to be placed on your licence.
No. Speeding is a serious motoring offence no matter what time of the day or night. Casualty figures show that fatal crashes still regularly occur early in the evening and late at night. Remember that driving during this time can also mean reduced visibility and tiredness.
Safety camera is the collective name for speed and red light cameras. It was decided to refer to them as safety cameras to reflect their use as a road safety device.
The Derbyshire Safety Camera Partnership is responsible for selecting safety camera sites and all the operations concerned with safety cameras.
The Derbyshire Safety Camera Partnership is a working group consisting of Derbyshire Constabulary, Derbyshire County Council, Derby City Council, Highways Agency, Derbyshire Magistrates and the Crown Prosecution Service. The Partnership operates under the Government's National Safety Camera Initiative.
The initiative allows local safety camera partnerships to claim back their administrative and operating costs from local safety camera fines, which are paid into the Treasury’s consolidated fund. So the funds raised from local speeding and red light violation fines will be reinvested into road safety at a local level.
No. This scheme is aimed at reducing the number of speed-related collisions and casualties. The Partnership can only claim back any administrative and operating costs. All of the Partnership’s camera locations have to meet strict criteria to ensure that cameras are only placed at collision hotspots.
The Derbyshire Safety Camera Partnership has a policy of encouraging motorists to stay within the speed limits. All the camera routes in Derbyshire are signed to make motorists aware of the cameras. Each fixed camera housing is painted yellow to make them visible to motorists. Two cameras in Hayfield have not been painted, as it was felt that it would spoil what is considered an area of outstanding natural beauty.
No. The fine must be paid in full within the payment period of one month.
For further information on the Freedom of Information Act 2000 please visit www.derbyshire.police.uk. Requests for information about safety cameras should be sent in writing to Safety Camera Unit, Derbyshire Police HQ, Butterley Hall, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3RS.
1) You must not have more than 8 penalty points on your licence.
2) Your driving licence should have been issued by the DVLA Swansea.
3) You must pay the fixed penalty and deliver your complete licence (photocard and counterpart where applicable) to the Clerk To The Justices, at the Magistrates Court, Ilkeston, within 28 days.
No. If you were travelling substantially over the limit you will be referred directly to court without the choice of a conditional offer. For example, travelling 50 mph in a 30mph zone.
You can pay the fine using the following methods:
Cash
Postal Order
Cheque
Credit Card (You can only pay by credit card at the payment counter at the magistrates court).
The conditional offer along with your payment and your complete licence must be sent or taken into the Fixed Penalty Office, at Ilkeston Magistrates Court, where it will be processed. You should receive your licence back within two weeks.
If you wish to contact the Fixed Penalty Office about payment or your licence please phone the Magistrates Court on 0115 932 0286 (in Contacts page - Magistrates Court).
The Derbyshire Safety Camera Partnership is responsible for selecting safety camera sites and all the operations concerned with safety cameras.
The Derbyshire Safety Camera Partnership is a working group consisting of Derbyshire Constabulary, Derbyshire County Council, Derby City Council, Highways Agency, Derbyshire Magistrates Courts and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Derbyshire Safety Camera Partnership is one of more than 40 similar projects across the country that operate under the Government's National Safety Camera Initiative. The initiative allows local safety camera partnerships to claim back the money in arrears to cover their administrative and operating costs.
Safety camera enforcement is just one part of a large programme of activity designed to encourage drivers to slow down. The Partnership has a programme of driver education and publicity running throughout the year.
Yes. In the Derbyshire Safety Camera Partnerships first year of operation (October 2001 – October 2002), the number of people killed and seriously injured on safety camera routes was reduced by 18%, and the number of collisions was reduced by 7% (when compared with the average from the previous three years).
The location of the camera and the speed recorded at the time of the offence is detailed on the front of the Notice of Intended Prosecution.
Photographs are not sent out in the first instance, but if you wish to obtain a copy then you should contact the Central Ticket Office and request that a copy is sent to you.
When you have received your conditional offer of a Fixed Penalty you can choose to pay the fine and accept the points on your licence, or elect to have the matter heard at court. Only a Magistrate can take into account mitigating circumstances. However, if you do go to court there is a chance that the court may increase the fine and the points as well as making you pay the court costs.
Motorists who receive a Notice of Intended Prosecution are welcome to write to the Central Ticket Office to request a copy of the camera calibration certificate. The contact address is: Derbyshire Safety Camera Partnership, Derbyshire Constabulary Headquarters, PO Box 6061, Ripley, DE5 3XB.
This is considered to be dangerous driving and could easily result in a collision. Mobile safety cameras are set up in between or after fixed cameras sites on occasions in an attempt to discourage this dangerous behaviour.
Yes, your vehicle is likely to be identified. However, because your vehicle was clearly travelling within the speed limit no action will be taken against you.
There are a number of vehicle-activated signs on various roads across the county. These signs flash up the correct speed limit when vehicles pass them exceeding that speed. They do not work alongside safety cameras but operate alone in a bid to encourage motorists to slow down voluntarily.
Safety camera enforcement is just one part of a large programme of activity designed to encourage drivers to slow down. When tackling a speeding problem, engineering solutions such as speed humps are always considered first - safety cameras are always a last resort.
Of course. Every speeding complaint received is taken very seriously. We investigate every site brought to our attention to see whether or not it fits the criteria for a safety camera. There is a safety camera request section on this website or requests can be posted to: Safety Camera Unit, Derbyshire Constabulary Headquarters, Butterley Hall, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3RS.
In Derbyshire, every fixed safety camera is painted bright yellow to make them as visible as possible to motorists. It is hoped that by making our safety cameras as visible as possible motorists will slow down voluntarily and reduce the risk of a casualty. It is not in anybody's interest to prosecute a motorist for speeding.
If a safety camera is requested on a particular route, we must:
A) Analyse the collision database to ascertain how many collisions resulted in injury or death have occured on the route over a three year period.
B) Carry out a speed survey at the suggested location to measure the 85th Percentile speed of traffic, and establish whether at least 20% of vehicles are exceeding the legal speed limit. This involves placing small pieces of equipment called Hi Stars on the road for several days to record information about the vehicles passing over them. Hi Stars, which are placed out on the road in pairs, record speed, weather, temperature, the time of day, traffic flow and vehicle size. The Hi Stars are then collected and the data is then downloaded onto a computer database ready for analysis. The results will be evaluated and if they meet all the necessary criteria they will then be put forward to the Department for Transport for approval.
More details can be found in the Site Selection Criteria Table.
On occasions safety cameras can be operated at sites that do not quite fulfil the criteria to qualify as fixed or regular mobile safety camera sites. These sites, which are known as Casualty Prevention Sites, have a recognised speeding problem have a recognised speeding problem but do not meet the criteria in relation to casualties. This type of enforcement is in high demand by members of the public and local police officers, therefore priority is given to the most vulnerable sites.
It can make an incredibly big difference in a collision - probably the difference between life and death. If you collided with an adult pedestrian at 30mph they would have an 80% chance of survival, but if you hit them at 40mph they would have a 90% chance of death.
Speeding is a very serious motoring offence. Research and experience confirm that excessive and inappropriate speed is a major contributory factor in collisions that cause death and injury. The purpose of safety cameras is to encourage motorists to change their attitude toward speeding and comply with speed limits at all times.
Excessive and inappropriate speed is a big problem that must be tackled. Safety cameras are operated to do just that. As it happens, safety cameras have not just been effective in detecting speeding motorists. The police have been able to use our film in the past to help them to trace burglars, disqualified drivers, dangerous drivers and other criminals.
Safety cameras are operated simply to slow motorists down and reduce the risk of a casualty, not to prosecute people. Therefore, we actively announce the locations of our safety cameras in the hope that motorists will slow down voluntarily.
An up-to-date list of all Derbyshire safety camera locations can be viewed on this website (click here).
On a weekly basis we also update the mobile safety camera locations for the week ahead on this website, and the local media also print or broadcast these locations.
The devices that detect the presence of a radar are extremely unreliable they can be set off by a number of different devices. The devices that store a database of safety cameras are nowhere near being up to date. New cameras are coming online all the time and the system is totally dependent on the information being given to the manufacturer of the device.
Yes. It is a legal obligation. If you fail to provide accurate information regarding your driving licence, your policy could be affected or cancelled.
It is highly likely they will increase. This is a matter for individual insurance companies.
They are valid for three years from the date of the offence, but they cannot be removed for a further one year (total of four years).
A driver who accumulates 12 or more penalty points within a three year period is likely to be disqualified from driving. This will be for a minimum period of six months or longer if the driver has previously been disqualified.
Photographs are not sent out in the first instance but if you wish to obtain a copy then you should contact the Central Ticket Office in writing and request that a copy is sent to you. The contact address is: Central Ticket Office, Derbyshire Constabulary Headquarters, PO Box 6061, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3XB.
All cameras are sent back to the manufacturer every year for an annual calibration. This is to ensure that the equipment continues to operate accurately, efficiently and fairly. Motorists who receive a Notice of Intended Prosecution are welcome to write to the Central Ticket Office to request a copy of the camera calibration certificate. The contact address is: Safety Camera Unit, Derbyshire Constabulary Headquarters, PO Box 6061, Ripley, DE5 3XB.
'Safety cameras' is a collective name for speed, mobile and red light cameras. It was decided to refer to them as safety cameras to reflect their use as a road safety device.
Mobile safety cameras work in a similar way to a video camera and are usually operated by a police officer through the rear window of a van. The operator must first form the opinion that a vehicle is exceeding the speed limit before using the camera equipment to corroborate this opinion. Mobile camera routes are clearly signed and the sites are published each week in the local press, broadcast on local radio stations and appear on this website.
There are currently 117 fixed safety cameras across Derbyshire. All routes are clearly signed so that road users are aware that safety cameras are in operation there. Two different types of fixed safety camera are operated in Derbyshire:
GATSO - These use a radar to measure the speed of vehicles and are only able to take rear facing photography.
TRUVELO - These use sensors embedded in the road to measure the speed of vehicles and have the ability to take front and rear facing photography.
One red light camera is currently operated in Derbyshire. Red light cameras are placed at traffic signals and are designed to detect motorists who drive through red lights. The camera is located at the junction of Friar Gate and Ford Street in Derby city centre.
Most certainly. Since safety camera sites were established in Derbyshire the number of people killed or seriously injured has been reduced by 39%, on roads where cameras are in operation.
Not at all. The partnership is, in effect, a self-funding organisation. Many people wrongly believe that the partnership benefits from the money raised from speeding fines and the more drivers we prosecute, the more money we receive. But in fact, the revenue is sent directly to the Government and the partnership is then only allowed to claim back money to cover its operating and administrative costs (eg: purchasing cameras, staff wages etc). The treasury keeps any excess revenue and it is not claimed back by the partnership.
No, this is a common misconception. The partnership is only concerned with reducing the number of speed-related collisions and casualties on the county’s roads. From our knowledge of Derbyshire’s roads it would be easy for us to simply position cameras on routes where we could guarantee to detect a large number of speeding motorists – but this is not our policy. We can only operate a new safety camera on a route that fulfils strict Government criteria. Many different factors are taken into consideration such as the number of people killed or injured on a route and whether there is a proven speeding problem. Because of the way that we are funded and the fact that we must obey these tight regulations, the partnership has no incentive to catch as many speeding motorists as it can. If the number of prosecutions is reduced we are pleased because it means that more and more motorists are sticking to speed limits and reducing the risk of a casualty.
Clear safety camera warning signs are placed within 1km of fixed camera housings and at the beginning of a targeted route for mobile enforcement sites. We take great care in ensuring that all signs comply with those specified in Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions.
All fixed camera housings are painted bright yellow and are clearly visible to road users and not hidden behind bridges, signs, trees or bushes. The minimum visibility distance should be 60 metres where the speed limit is 40mph or less and 100 metres for all other limits. Mobile safety camera vehicles are highly visible and are recognisable by the Safety Camera Team livery and reflective strips. However, there will be special occasions when there will be a need to operate with unmarked vehicles (Please see news release 02/05/07 - Unmarked vehicles – special operations – motorcycle casualty reduction)
Local authorities are not permitted to put in 30mph repeater signs. Any built-up area with street lighting at regular intervals without speed limit signs will usually be a 30mph zone, unless otherwise indicated. When driving in a 30mph zone put your vehicle in third gear - the natural speed of the car will be around 30mph so this will assist you in keeping to the speed limit.
Not at all. The safety camera operation is, in effect, self-funding. Many people wrongly believe that the organisations responsible for safety cameras benefit from the money raised from speeding fines. In fact, the revenue raised is sent directly to the Government and money can only be claimed back to cover operating and administrative costs (eg: purchasing cameras, staff wages etc). Any excess revenue is held by the Treasury.
No, this is a common misconception. Safety cameras are only operated in order to reduce the number of casualties on the county’s roads. From our knowledge of Derbyshire’s roads it would be easy for us to simply position cameras on routes where we could guarantee to detect a large number of speeding motorists – but this is not our policy. We can only operate a safety camera on a route that fulfils strict criteria. Many different factors are taken into consideration such as the number of people killed or injured on a route and whether there is a proven speeding problem.