Email reveals 2500 speed
camera locations
From Online News
By Nassim Khadem
July 31, 2003
A widely-circulated
email revealing 2500 secret locations used for speed cameras across
Victoria has embarrassed Richmond Football Club and dismayed police.
The chain-email,
forwarded to hundreds of people yesterday and today, tells readers
the position of locations used for radar and speed traps across the
state.
The spreadsheet
attached to the email lists thousands of speed camera locations that
are correct up until January 24, 2002. "Sites not appearing on
this list, cannot be worked," the document says.
Who exactly started
the email chain and leaked the confidential Victoria Police list remains
uncertain.
Radio 3AW yesterday
suggested the email was circulated by someone from the Richmond Football
Club which is sponsored by the Transport Accident Commission.
Club chief executive Ian Campbell denied the leaked email had affected
the club's relationship with the TAC, but said the club would talk
to the TAC about the incident.
A Richmond spokesperson,
when contacted this morning, confirmed the email had been sent to
the club. "It was an email that was sent here and obviously someone
had done the wrong thing (and passed it on)," they said.
The club said it
was conducting internal investigations to find the identity of the
mystery person who forwarded the email.
The text accompanying
the email says: "Take a look guys, be careful. These are mainly
positions for radar traps and those revenue raisers (sic) with the
box attached to the front bumper bars."
Victoria Police
said they would not investigate the leaking of the document.
"Police are
aware of the various lists circulating purporting to be lists of speed
camera sites in Victoria," superintendent Peter Keogh said.
"Police have
viewed some of the lists which appear to be out of date."
TAC spokesperson
De-Arnne Schmidt said the incident would not affect the TAC's sponsorship
of Richmond Football Club.
"We don't
intend to make any changes to the public education programs we are
committed to. The focus on ... the Wipe off Five campaign will continue,"
she said.
Asked if the information
in the email would affect safety on the roads, Ms Schmidt said: "The
fact of the matter is that the list is not one hundred per cent accurate.
You will need to talk to police about that. If that's the case, then
I wouldn't be able to comment on that."
