Road Safety Bill [HL]

The fact is that you need evidence. Cameras are moved around from place to place according to the severity of accidents and the number of people committing an offence. However, mobile devices are available, particularly mobile automatic number plate recognition devices. They do not catch many people who are speeding, but they catch many criminals, disqualified drivers, people who have skipped bail and people who are wanted for criminal offences. I hope that the Minister will cover a matter about which I am particularly concerned; that is, that no car should contain a device that tells the driver that a camera is active. It is one thing to have a map or a GPS system that indicates the site of a box—it was wrong to paint them yellow; the decision to do that was wrong—but there should not be a device in a car that tells you whether a camera is active. One of the groups of people who would make most use of that are not speeding motorists but the criminal fraternity in general, who would pick out any device that the police care to use to enforce the law. The noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, is right about the matter. I am interested not just in jamming but in the devices that I have seen that sit on the windscreen and give a little whizzing noise to indicate that there is an active camera in the area. I am particularly concerned about those.