Committee
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 04 October 2023
04 Oct 2023 · S6 · Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
New Petitions
National Dashcam Safety Portal (PE2013)
Agenda item 5 is consideration of new petitions. In case people joining us to follow our proceedings this morning have a petition that we are considering I will let them know, as I always do, that, ahead of each petition’s first consideration, we invite the Scottish Government to comment on it and we seek comment from the Scottish Parliament’s independent research unit, SPICe. The first new petition is PE2013, which is on the implementation of a national dashcam safety portal and was lodged by Neil McNamara. It calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce without delay a national dashcam safety portal, as has already been agreed by Police Scotland. The SPICe briefing explains that a national dashcam safety portal would provide an online channel for members of the public to submit directly to Police Scotland evidence of potential road traffic offences that is recorded on dashcams, helmet cameras and mobile phones. The Scottish Government’s response to the petition highlights its recent programme for government commitment on the issue. The programme states that Police Scotland will seek to build on the Scottish Government’s investment to make it easier to submit digital evidence to report poor road user behaviour. Dundee has piloted the digital evidence-sharing capability programme, or DESC, which allows a request for digital evidence to be sent to a member of the public. Do members have any comments or suggestions for action?
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The Convener
Con
Agenda item 5 is consideration of new petitions. In case people joining us to follow our proceedings this morning have a petition that we are considering I w...
Fergus Ewing
SNP
Can we write to Police Scotland to ask how it intends to fund improvements to the ways in which digital evidence is submitted and, in particular, where the f...
The Convener
Con
I invite the clerks to give some consideration as to whom we might write in order to fulfil that objective. I am quite content with the suggestion.
Foysol Choudhury
Lab
Data protection and privacy could be affected as well. We see quite a lot of stuff online. People post footage of cyclists and people in private cars. What m...
The Convener
Con
We could add that question to our inquiry to those who have implemented the technology elsewhere, in order to learn how they have overcome those particular c...
The Convener
Con
I should say that I have just been advised that Marie McNair was not able to join us after Alex Neil’s evidence, so she has not been with us for consideratio...