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No surprise that this is lancs police !!

Thanks for bringing this to my attention- naturally, this is no surprise to me. OpSnapLancs is an abomination whose only function is as a quick route to the bin. If they notice someone is bringing indisputable offences to them, they cease responding altogether. Doesn't matter what the traffic offence is- gross RLJs, no MOT for 2 years on a vehicle frequently seen on the roads in Garstang, false number plates etc. etc. They ignore them all, which is why Lancashire is a safe haven for offending and insurance- and tax-evading drivers

I've found that if, when you have raised an issue and had nil response, submit a complaint.  LC does NOT like their complaints stats to show an upward trend.  Applies to other crap customer service issues as well. 

Mark Hodson has been dragged into the twitter feed for that. He is giving potential excuses for them (lack of staff) but he has obviously never seen any of the posts on here about their poorness. 

This Police force is definitely one that needs chasing down by road.cc, Cycling UK, Boardman or anyone else that can drag some answers out of them about their poor performances with Cyclist submitted stuff, including the basics like RLJ or Untaxed drivers. 

Writing  "Your position contributes to the incident"  - tell me you know nothing about the HC or cycling without actually stating that.
They are not fit for purpose.

Writing  "Your position contributes to the incident"

What Lancashire Constabulary woud mean by that is 'if you scummy cyclists weren't on the road these close-passes would not have happened - and besides this Sainsbury's 44-tonner has something about cyclists on the back so it's even more your fault because Sainsbury's is Caring and Sharing'

May be an idea to get some examples of videos from Lancashire with the police responses on NMOTD. I did a search for NMOTD Lancashire and of the two reported, one in West Lancs had the police contacting the firm for the name of the driver and one the police did not respond at all.

Another advantage of getting  examples on NMOTD is that if Cycling UK decide to belatedly get involved then all the evidence is in the same place. At the moment I don't think there is any other repository for these.

There are now quite a few for Gloucestershire and road.cc have contacted them a few times with the last one resulting in them admitting to an error. https://road.cc/content/news/near-miss-day-794-294151

Small steps but in the right direction.

May be an idea to get some examples of videos from Lancashire with the police responses on NMOTD

That's in the hands of the site managers. They didn't put them on, so I stopped sending them. Clio PE69 OOC passed at about 60 mph. No response from Lancashire Constabulary

Ah, I see, sorry to hear that. All I can suggest is that you try again. May be use a recent one where it's a clear case of careless driving and NFA so that road.cc can chase it up if they feel so inclned. I suspect RLJ is not the way to go for NMOTD.

Alternatively there must be other readers in Lancashire with suitable footage.

Any way, good luck. I really hope you manage to get somewhere in your quest to improve Lancashire's responses to video footage submitted by cyclists.

From the multiple screenshots hi-res still from HD videos he has posted here, he has examples of all sorts of NMotD. There is normally one post, if not two or three under most. The RLJ and untaxed, MoT'd (and so uninsured) car is just the icing showing that Lancashire Police ignore all sorts of road crime submitted to them. 

May be use a recent one where it's a clear case of careless driving and NFA so that road.cc can chase it up

Ho! Ho! Ho! road.cc is not going to be chasing anything up, because they can't. The main tactic of Lancashire Constabulary in cases where they're as guilty as sin is to simply not respond in any way. That stops a website dead.

All wtjs really. Plenty of examples (albeit screenshots) and comments about lancs, so I'm surprised Road.cc haven't contacted him directly to get more info. 

Plenty of examples (albeit screenshots)

No they're not! Mostly they're hi-res stills extracted from the HD video. The only time I use screenshots is to show the time between the lights turning red, and the offender going across the stop line. Using the 50 fps video as a clock is verified by the amber phase being always 3 seconds =/- 10 milliseconds or so. And the 'caution' hardly applies to cases like this, where there's a 100% probability of Lancashire Constabulary failing to act: (that's almost 3 years of enjoyable tax-free motoring, and 6 1/2 months so far of freedom from the tiresome over-restrictive MOT)

That second one, with the white car, was awful.  I hate it when motorists overtake on a left bend and then still try to do a racing line around the bend...

And all the comments (at least when I looked last night) that mentioned that clip were the typical "bicycles don't belong on the road"/"cyclists can't complain about drivers because they don't pay for the roads".

Also, there were a few bad lorry drivers in that compilation, yet nobody in the comments is suggesting that all lorry drivers are selfish rule-breakers - every time there's clip of a misbehaving cyclist in there though, every comment is "why are all cylists like this?!!11"

The first one where the lorry approached the car from behind then turned into him seems to have spawned loads of "that is why you don't sit in a lorry's blind spot" comments. He didn't, the lorry driver put him there, the car driver did not. I also like how accepting it is to having a large mass travelling at 55mph is ok to have blind spots on, yet a small mass cycling on the pavement  is jumped on by the same people.