The Programme
The Programme aims to change driver behaviour ensuring that motorists are aware of the dangers of excessive and inappropriate speeds.
It does so by ensuring that safety cameras, the collective term for speed and red light cameras, are deployed at priority sites in need of casualty reduction and ensuring that motorists are aware of the need to reduce speed and to drive within the speed limit.
We want all road users to be safe and to drive within the posted speed limit. We'll also make it as easy as we can to ensure that drivers achieve it. Already we mark cameras in fluorescent yellow and red and ensure that signs are erected in advance. Safety camera partnerships also publish camera sites and now you can even search for camera locations on our CamFinder.
The Safety Camera Handbook provides guidance and sets out the rules partnerships are required to follow, if they are to operate within the Scottish Safety Camera Programme.
It should be understood the Handbook is not set out in Road Traffic Legislation. Failure to comply with any of these rules may only result in a partnership or any of it partners being unable to recover their costs associated with safety camera activity. It is not intended that non-compliance with any part of the Handbook, by any partner organisation, should offer any grounds for defence in any criminal court proceedings.
The local Police Chief Constable has the autonomy to carry out speed camera or other enforcement at any time outside of the Safety Camera Programme. If you speed anywhere on the road network you could be caught and be liable to prosecution. Drive safely and within the speed limit.