Roadside cameras have been installed in two villages – but no-one knows who put them there.
The green cameras appeared at the side of Carlton Road, in Barlestone, and on the A447 in Stapleton, at the start of December.
After curious residents contacted the Mercury, we asked various organisations about the cameras but could not find out who installed them.
A spokesman for the Highways Agency said he did not know anything about them.
"I've called around everyone and they have no idea who they belong to," he said.
"I've had two or three different conversations and everyone has said they are definitely not Highways Agency roads, so they can't be ours.
"I've checked with our patch manager and also contractors, but they couldn't say who they belonged to.
"I've had a word with our technical guys and they said lots of police and local authorities use cameras like that."
However, a spokesman for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Road Safety Partnership – made up of the police, fire service and the council – was equally stumped.
He said the cameras did not belong to the partnership.
"We've actually got no idea who these cameras could belong to," he said. "But they are certainly not monitoring speed from our end.
"They are nothing to do with us and our colleagues at county hall said it is not them."
A spokeswoman for Leicestershire County Council said its highways department did not install the devices, and both road monitoring company Traffic Master and the county's Area Traffic Control team said the cameras did not belong to them either.
The devices bear the logo CA Traffic – a UK supplier of traffic monitoring equipment, in Buckinghamshire.
However, a spokeswoman for the company said that, while some cameras were sold directly to local authorities or police forces, others were sold to middle men.
She said the cameras had not been installed by the company, and they were unable to give details of who they had been sold to.
Residents had their own ideas about the origin of the cameras.
Stapleton resident Roy Davenport, 74, said: "M15 maybe? They just popped up a few weeks ago and nobody knows where from.
"I've no idea – I've exhausted everyone I can think of.
"Someone put them up – it makes you wonder why they haven't bothered to tell people around here why.
"It is very mysterious – somebody must know and I hope they will come forward and tell us.
"I drive past them all the time and I think they are all over the place around the country."
