Number Plate offences (1470A/23)
Request
Please could you provide over email the answers to the following questions, with the understanding that we are requesting statistics from your area specifically:
1.Please provide a breakdown of number plate violations by type in your area by year?
2.How many people were caught for missing front number plates by year?
3.How many number plate violations were caught by cameras in 2022?
4.How many number plate violations were caught by officers in 2022?
5.How many reports of number plate cloning have there been this year?
6.How many reports of number plate theft have there been this year?
We clarified with you on 29th September 2023 and you replied on 2nd October 2023:
1.Please provide a breakdown of number plate violations by type in your area by year? (please provide a start and end date for the search) The beginning of 2021 (Jan 1st) to the end of 2022 (31st Dec)
2.How many people were caught for missing front number plates by year? (please provide a start and end date for the search) The beginning of 2021 (Jan 1st) to the end of 2022 (31st Dec)
3.How many number plate violations were caught by cameras in 2022? Do you want 1st Jan 2022 to 31st Dec 2022? Yes
4.How many number plate violations were caught by officers in 2022? Do you want 1st Jan 2022 to 31st Dec 2022? Yes
5.How many reports of number plate cloning have there been this year? Do you want 1st Jan 2023 to current date? Yes
6.How many reports of number plate theft have there been this year? Do you want 1st Jan 2023 to current date? Yes
Response
Our data are not organised in such a way as to allow us to provide this information within the appropriate (cost) limit within the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (see ‘Reason for Decision’ below).
Although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the Freedom of Information Act, as a gesture of goodwill I have supplied information, relative to your request, retrieved before it was realised that the fees limit would be exceeded (see enclosed). I trust this is helpful, but it does not affect our legal right to rely on the fee’s regulations for the remainder of the request.
Q1: Please provide a breakdown of number plate violations by type in your area by year? For the beginning of 2021 (Jan 1st) to the end of 2022 (31st Dec)
2021
| Drive a vehicle when the registration mark fails to conform with regulations | 419 |
| Keep vehicle and trailer no rear registration plate – registered after 09/38 | 2 |
| Drive vehicle no front registration plate – registered after 30/09/38 | 57 |
| Keep a vehicle when registration mark fails to conform with the regulations | 40 |
| Drive vehicle / vehicle and trailer no rear registration plate – registered after 30/09/38 | 5 |
| Drive a vehicle with registration mark obscured / indistinguishable | 25 |
| Drive a vehicle with no registration plate – registered before 1/10/38 | 1 |
| Keep a vehicle with registration mark obscured | 4 |
| Contravene / fail comply with regulations made under s. 24 Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 | 1 |
| Keep vehicle no front registration plate – registered after 30/09/38 | 8 |
2022
| Drive a vehicle when the registration mark fails to conform with regulations | 256 |
| Drive vehicle no front registration plate – registered after 30/09/38 | 34 |
| Drive a vehicle with registration mark obscured / indistinguishable | 16 |
| Keep a vehicle when registration mark fails to conform with the regulations | 41 |
| Drive vehicle / vehicle and trailer no rear registration plate – registered after 30/09/38 | 4 |
| Keep a vehicle with no registration plate – registered before 1/10/38 | 1 |
| Keep a vehicle with registration mark obscured | 4 |
| Keep vehicle no front registration plate – registered after 30/09/38 | 5 |
Q2: How many people were caught for missing front number plates by year? For the beginning of 2021 (Jan 1st) to the end of 2022 (31st Dec)
Please see question 1
Q3: How many number plate violations were caught by cameras in 2022 for 1st Jan 2022 to 31st Dec 2022?
In order to provide this data, we would need to individually assess each offence to see how it was reported, this will exceed the 18 hours for the purposes of the FOI Act.
Q4: How many number plate violations were caught by officers in 2022? For 1st Jan 2022 to 31st Dec 2022?
Please see Q3
Q5: How many reports of number plate cloning have there been this year? For 1st Jan 2023 to current date?
190
Q6: How many reports of number plate theft have there been this year? For 1st Jan 2023 to current date?
1194
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