General information
The purpose of stationary speed cameras (‘speed cameras’) is to improve road safety. Improving road safety is a set of various measures, with raising public awareness, prevention, improvements in legislation and fining policy, and improvements in road infrastructure playing an equally important role. Experience shows that the operation and deployment of speed cameras must be balanced: stationary and mobile devices should be used at the same time, and there should be police presence on the roads as well. The location of every speed camera is publicly available and is provided on the CSDD website, ‘Map of stationary speed cameras’ section, and through various navigation apps. Furthermore, the speed limit road sign before every speed camera with an additional sign warns that a speed camera is in use. This means that from the viewpoint of organising road traffic, everything has been done to ensure that road users are aware of the speed camera, and that they only can receive a fine for an offence recorded by the speed camera by blatantly ignoring road signs and breaking the Road Traffic Regulations.
CSDD installs and maintains speed cameras on the basis of a delegation agreement with the State Police, concluded in accordance with Section 43.7(1) of the Road Traffic Law, enabling the State Police to record offences via special equipment without needing to stop the vehicle.
The locations for the installation of speed cameras were set in 2015–2018 according to the location selection criteria provided in Cabinet Regulation 200 ‘Procedure for the use of special photo or video equipment’ of 15 April 2014, and the selected locations for the installation of speed cameras were submitted for cross-institutional assessment, including the State Police, VAS ‘Latvijas Valsts ceļi’, and the Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments. In determining the locations of the speed cameras, the experience of other countries as well as road traffic data and traffic factors specific to Latvia were analysed and taken into account. Namely this included accident analysis (number of accidents, injuries and fatalities at the given location), the functional importance of the road section for traffic, the potential danger of speeding to other road users, traffic intensity and typical driving patterns.
The quality of speed camera measurements is ensured in accordance with the Law on Uniformity of Measurements, Cabinet Regulation 40 ‘Regulations on the list of measuring instruments subject to state metrological supervision’ of 9 January 2007, and Cabinet Regulation 981 ‘Regulations on the re-verification of measuring instruments, verification certificates, and verification marks’ of 5 December 2006.
The funding for the maintenance of the speed cameras is provided in accordance with Order 382 ‘On the long-term commitments of the Ministry of the Interior in the operation of special equipment for recording road traffic offences (speed cameras)’ of 29 July 2014.
For further details
- Use e-CSDD
- For information about violations detected by a speed camera, call 67208090
- For State Police information about road traffic offences, call 67208108, or e-mail kanceleja.cpp@vp.gov.lv