Speed Camera News AU: Fresh police challenge to speed camera accuracy (Govt. trying to deny FOIA on documents)
(Thanks to Paul Henry for the link).
Fresh police challenge to speed camera accuracy
by: Keith Moor
From:Herald Sun
September 09, 201112:00AM
A speed camera over a freeway. Source: Herald Sun
ANOTHER police officer is trying to prove speed cameras are inaccurate.
Veteran traffic cop Trevor Bergman has failed in an attempt to get documents, through a Freedom of Information request, that he claimed would prove the unreliability of the cameras.
He is now appealing against that decision in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Leading Sen-Constable Bergman's battle with authorities followed the actions of Sen-Constable Faye Pitman, who this week beat an EastLink speeding fine in the Dandenong Magistrates' Court.
Her lawyer successfully argued she was travelling at 98km/h when a camera on the Dandenong bypass snapped her allegedly travelling at 106km/h in a marked police car.
Constable Bergman claimed in FoI documents submitted to the Department of Justice that speed cameras regularly snapped motorists who were not speeding.
He believed he had found a way of triggering speed cameras when a vehicle was not speeding and claimed to have done so several times.
Constable Bergman requested copies of speed camera photographs taken of him on the seven times he claimed he purposely triggered the cameras.
The Department of Justice refused to release the photographs to him on the grounds doing so could jeopardise the proper functioning of the speed camera system.
A Department of Justice spokesman yesterday said last week's Auditor-General's report had shown conclusively that speed and red-light cameras saved lives and reduced road trauma.
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