Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Indeed they can, and do. here's just one example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northwes ... cars.shtml I don't know how much of n overall deterrent it is, though; many of the cars aren't worth much and so you mightsay that the risk of having your £300 Astra crushed is worth taking to save on the £5000 cost of a policy? That article suggests that as a result of the crackdown maybe 20,000 extra insurance policies were taken out in the area, so it's all good, and i applaud the campaign, but that would still leave the vast majority of uninsured drivers demonstrably not really bothered. http://stayinsured.askmid.com/seized.html I'm sure I read an article a few years ago in the YEP about an operation by West Yorkshire Police in Bradford. It was called something like 'Ring of Steel' or something like that, whereby the police monitored every road in and out of the city with a view to catching various law breakers. I'm sure they were supposed to run the operation for a week or so, but had to stop after two days due to the sheer quantity of offenders, which I presume a lot would've been uninsured drivers. My memory isn't the best, so may have got some of the detail wrong.

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:Indeed they can, and do. here's just one example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northwes ... cars.shtml I don't know how much of n overall deterrent it is, though; many of the cars aren't worth much and so you mightsay that the risk of having your £300 Astra crushed is worth taking to save on the £5000 cost of a policy? That article suggests that as a result of the crackdown maybe 20,000 extra insurance policies were taken out in the area, so it's all good, and i applaud the campaign, but that would still leave the vast majority of uninsured drivers demonstrably not really bothered. http://stayinsured.askmid.com/seized.html I'm sure I read an article a few years ago in the YEP about an operation by West Yorkshire Police in Bradford. It was called something like 'Ring of Steel' or something like that, whereby the police monitored every road in and out of the city with a view to catching various law breakers. I'm sure they were supposed to run the operation for a week or so, but had to stop after two days due to the sheer quantity of offenders, which I presume a lot would've been uninsured drivers. My memory isn't the best, so may have got some of the detail wrong.

Far as I know Ring of Steel ran with a lot of success, but whether it was time limited you'd have to ask the police. Having set up all the cameras i very much doubt they'd take them all out, but do't know.

It obviously couldn't even begin to monitor "every road into the city" though - there's just too many. The main arterial routes were covered and maybe a couple more A roads. Besides which I should think if you know where any given camera is, then it's pretty easy to not drive past it. Also the cameras can do nothing about cars on false plates.