How many speed cameras there have been in each of the last five years.

Information on the number of speed camera devices operated by the police is not held centrally. Information is available, however, for safety camera sites operated by safety camera partnerships as part of the Scottish Safety Camera Programme. This information is provided in the following table. The figures given include camera locations that may have been operated by the police prior to the Safety Camera Programme.
Chief Constables also have the autonomy to carry out speed enforcement at any location outside of the programme. This activity is not collected and therefore not included in the following table.
Year
| Programme Expansion
| Number of Cameras Accepted into the Programme Year on Year*

Average Speed Camera Systems
| Fixed Sites
| Mobile Sites
| Total

2000-2002
| Pilot project involving Strathclyde – area covered by Glasgow City Council only
| 0
| 29
| 0
| 29

2002-2003
| Strathclyde expands to cover 4 local authorities
Fife joins Programme April 2002
North East Partnership joins October 2002
| 0
| 75
| 129
| 204

2003-2004
| Strathclyde Partnership expands to cover 12 local authorities
Dumfries and Galloway joins July 2003
Lothian and Borders joins July 2003
Tayside joins July 2003
| 0
| 181
| 245
| 426

2004-2005
| Northern Partnership joins July 2004
Lothian and Borders expands to include West Lothian Council area July 2004
| 0
| 181
| 309
| 490

2005-2006
| No new partnership areas, SPECS system installed on A77 July 2005
| 1
| 182
| 315
| 498

Note: *Figures given are for all camera sites accepted into the Scottish Safety Camera Programme and are correct at 31 August 2005. Camera numbers can vary due to additional sites being accepted into the programme during the year and operational decisions on camera usage and deployment. The figures given are based on information supplied by safety camera partnerships. As partnerships and the programme have expanded, additional geographic areas have been included where camera sites may already have been operated by the police in conjunction with the roads authorities. Central Scotland is not currently part of the programme and therefore no figures are included for this area.