VIDEO footage of bad drivers in Lancashire could be used to raise money for road safety projects.

Lancashire police is among the forces to supply footage to the television programme Police, Camera, Action.

Over the last two years the force has received £1,750 in royalty payments for clips supplied.

Production company Optomen Television hopes to sell the programme abroad - a move agreed by the Association of Chief Police Officers, which believes the programme conveys a positive road safety message. Half of the royalties earned by Optomen through the overseas sales would be passed back to the police forces which contributed.

Tomorrow Lancashire Police Authority's finance committee will consider giving half of that money to a central fund, which would pay for research to benefit road safety.

A report to the committee says: "The ACPO traffic committee considers that individual royalty payments to individual forces will be relatively small but the combined total would be sufficient to fund some worthwhile national initiatives."

The idea already has the backing of Lancashire's Chief Constable, Pauline Clare.

Committee chairman Coun Bob Clark said: "This is a very good idea and a good use of the money and the footage.

"Anything that we can use to help get the road safety message across is to be welcomed."

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