Lancashire speed camera technician sacked

4:16pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

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A Lancashire police speed camera technician has been sacked after drivers were wrongly hit with speeding fines totalling £35,000.

The action has been revealed at the end of an Independent Police Complaints Commission-managed investigation into allegations that the worker had failed to carry out his work correctly.

The IPCC found that on a number of occasions between September 2006 and May 2007, the speed camera technician had failed to correctly calibrate the mobile speed camera he was using.

The camera was used in Penwortham and Blackpool during that period.

This meant that the man, who was based in Blackburn and started his job in September 2006, failed to carry out the set procedures to ensure the distance measurement and alignment were correct before and after the camera was operated.

Failure to do this meant it could not be guaranteed the camera had worked correctly.