Speeding offences (FOI ref: 301/26)

Request

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

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request may be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data.

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

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.