How the police have invariably supported speed cameras, on the basis of fundamentally flawed data and information, and how they have cobbled together a new scheme to keep them going when Councils refused to fund them.

 

This section will also include many examples of how senior police officers and Acpo have, increasingly since 1997, seriously breached basic principles of policing, exceeded tbeir authority, ignored clear evidence of failure of their road safety policy and systematically misrepresented the rights and duties of drivers and other road users.

This includes forming RSS Ltd explicitly to threaten potential defendants with costs of £4,o00 if they dare defend themselves in court, saying to them “Come and get us if you are hard enough”.

Police forces across the country also systematically mislead potential defendants about their rights and responsibilities in speeding cases, invariably in ways calculated to persuade them to give in and pay up – whether they are guilty or not. In many cases this amounts to attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Early in 2011 Nick Herbert MP, the Police Minister, forced Acpo – a private limited company – to stop “running” under-cover police officers, following a case which collapsed when the under-cover officer was exposed as such. Mr. Herbert also forced Acpo to stop running a massive data-base of “political activist”. Just who do Acpo think they are?