Scandal of wasted camera fine cash

[cazzo]

For those who don't read MCN (Motorcycle News) there is a double page article explaining how Essex Partnership 'spends' it's revenue.



Don't think the article is on the MCN website so If you want the full article, buy MCN.

[mondeoman]

£2.5 Million for Essex Council = WTF???? I thought that was Council Tax funded - oh, this is the new council Tax.

Lets get that explained - oh and the £450k for a NEW building??

Jobs for the boys springs to mind here - a self-perpetuating industry.

[TSS]

Hospitality?

[Apache]

For those of us who live in Essex, could I suggest you post this to your MP, your local rag, take it to work and nail it to your bosses forehead. It's doing sweet fa by preaching to the converted unfortunately. I'd have thought this is misappropriation of funds

[wimdows]

What a joke.

Salaries: over 1.4 million!

What would happen if these camera's would actually achieve what the government and scamera partnerships are claiming? They wouldn't be able to pay the bloody salaries anymore!

One hell of a conflict of interest me thinks...

[deltaf]

Camera costs only came to £31, 658.........Supposedly 100,000 a shot.

salaries were the biggest expense (jobs for the boys etc) followed by the cost of ? Nice new offices!
Same old story.......THIEVES!

[cazzo]

Apache said:

For those of us who live in Essex, could I suggest you post this to your MP, your local rag, take it to work and nail it to your bosses forehead. It's doing sweet fa by preaching to the converted unfortunately. I'd have thought this is misappropriation of funds

Indeed, I believe that the Guy responsible for exposing this has been giving Essex CC some stick and is making waves but any more pressure that can be brought...

[oyster]

How do they both build and maintain their offices, yet are still paying rent????

[deltaf]

Press are on it!

[bogie]

so at a generous salary (for a scamera operator)of 30K thats 50 of them ! ...just for Essex? ...surely cant be right FFS !?...or have they 3 tiers of middle management on 40-50K a year to support and they pay the operators 12K....outrageous

[streaky]

deltaf said:

Camera costs only came to £31, 658.........Supposedly 100,000 a shot. salaries were the biggest expense (jobs for the boys etc) followed by the cost of ? Nice new offices! Same old story.......THIEVES!

Depends how you do the accounting/present the figures.

When producing year-end accounts, the breakdown has to (probably/possibly/maybe not/EU style ) follow accounting rules. When quoting the cost of operating a camera (eg. to the Press), overheads are likely to be added in. Whether those include 'hospitality' is unknown .

Streaky

[james_j]

The accounts of all these revenue camera organisations should be scrutinised.

...and it's all in the name of safety! How convenient.

[cazzo]

UPDATE

This is the full article for anyone who didn't see it and wants to.

www.safespeed.org.uk/mcn001.jpg

[Apache]

As I said before, the MCN is a paper for bikers, the general public need to see this article