E-scooter Offences (35A/23)
Request
1) The number of traffic offences recorded for e-scooter riders, broken down by the offence type (i.e. Driving/riding without insurance, need to be taxed). Could you please provide answers to Question 1 for the following calendar years 2019 – 2023 – up to the latest month available
2) For the traffic offences in Question 1) for e-scooter riders, can you list police action taken for each offence, split between: NFA, Potential Prosecution, Paid Confirmed, Ongoing, or any other classification your Force uses? For the following calendar years 2019 – 2023 – up to the latest month available.
3) For traffic offences in Question 1) for e-scooter riders, can you provide the total monetary value of Fixed Penalty Notices / fines handed out to offenders? Could you please provide answers to Question 3 for the following calendar years 2019 – 2023 – up to the latest month available?
4) How does your Force deal with people riding e-scooters illegally on pavements? Please could you provide as much detail as possible?
5) How many e-scooters have you seized from 2019 – 2023 – up to the latest month available?
Please provide the information in the form of a spreadsheet.
Response
Please find attached our response.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is 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 those data.
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 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.