Speeding offences and fixed penalty notices

Your request details

For each of the calendar years 2023, 2024 and 2025, please provide:
1.         The total number of speeding offences detected by your force, regardless of outcome (including fixed penalty notices, speed awareness courses, prosecutions, or other disposals).

2.         Of these, the number of speeding offences detected in locations with a 20 mph speed limit zone.

If held, please provide the data broken down by year. If the data is not held exactly in this format, I would be grateful if you could provide the closest equivalent information available.

For clarity, this request relates to detected speeding offences, rather than notices issued or final outcomes, unless detections are not recorded separately.

Response

I approached our Safety Camera and Ticketing Department for assistance with your request, they provided me with the following:

Question 1

Question 2

This department does not routinely carry out the enforcement of 20mph speed limits. However please see the following table for the total 20mph offences detected by Police officers with manned devices:

For clarity, the total number of detections is not recorded separately.

Please note, every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that data has been extracted from data sources used by this force for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording systems and information assets.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures/data for any requests may have limitations, and this should be taken into account when those data sets are used.

Police forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures for capturing the data. For these reasons this response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with responses you may receive from other police forces.