speed camera question

[supercharged spaniel]

travelling along and on the opposite side of the road was a mobile speed camera.  The front of it facing me.  I slowed down just as i past and the camera was pointing out the back window..so basically facing the oncoming traffic..fine i thought. However there was a small cctv camera, like the ones found in a shop pointing out the front, at me as i travelled towards it.  What was this one for?  Im pretty sure its unrelated to the 'speed' camera as it was tiny in comparison and white, exactly like a small shop cctv camera?  Anyone know for sure  what it does? just surveilance for the van?  if its not i would of defo be traveling too quick as i approached the front of the van.  only the back had the warning stripes on it so it was fairly un noticable from the front until you got close to it.

[sinister polo]

i think you will find that it was an "anpr" camera that checks passing cars number plates for insurance,
tax and other things!

[supercharged spaniel]

the one sticking out the back?  no it was a speed camera.  it even said 'safety camera'

[sinister polo]

aha no i mean the white one sticking out the front!

[scotsjohn]

i think you will find that it was an "anpr" camera that checks passing cars number plates for insurance,
tax and other things!

Exactly what it is; your humble,mobile gatso has moved up a gear or two. I wouldn't mind, but just where information gathered goes is the problem. Tax and insurance fair enough, it's the "other things" that bother me.

[lance]

one that sticks out the back is a speed camera so takes your speed one thats in the front takes number plate of the back of the vehicle incase its a motorbike.

[scotsjohn]

I'd like to think you're right, but what sinister polo said is what I've been told by the fuzz themselves. " a gizmo for a totally different job" was how it was put.

[lance]

well thats what the camera vans in cumbria are like anyway.