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Snap up foreign speeders

29th August 2002
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• Kent Police will meet with the government next month to discuss ways of clamping down on foreign dhvers caught on speed cameras,

Currently if a foreign driver is caught the system can identify its number plate and trace the firm to which it belongs, but police are unable to find out who was driving at the time of the incident and so no action is taken (CM1-7 August).

Kent police now hope to gain permission from the government to use the Criminal Justice (International CoOperation Act 19901 to prosecute speeding foreign drivers caught on roadside cameras.

This Act empowers the police to send a written notice to the company in question asking who was driving at the time of the offence and then issue a summons to the owner of tne foreign vehicle in his home country to appear before a UK court,

Sergeant Jerry Hollands of the Kent police traffic unit says: in the past we were never convinced about how effective using this law would be because it was hard to gain access to vehicle records in other countries. Many of these records were localised, making it a time-consuming process,"

But he adds: "There is now greater co-operation between European Union states and centralised vehicle registrations in each country, so we are going to evaluate how it can be used."

A spokesperson for the Home Office says: 'We are meeting with Kent police to discuss this. It is one of a number of ongoing operational meetings with a various bodies."


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