Traffic Penalty Notices

Please provide details of the number of moving and stationary traffic penalty notices issued by the force, which have not been enforced or have not been paid by the payment deadline and remain unpaid. Please provide the value of the fines that remain uncollected.

This should be broken down annually into the type of traffic penalties issued, such as speeding recorded by a camera; speeding recorded by an officer; parking; and driving without due care and attention, from the past three years (from January 2007). Please indicate the proportion these represent of the total penalty notices imposed.

Of particular interest are the number of fines levied on foreign-registered vehicles. Please provide figures for the number and value of penalties that have not been paid or have not been enforced for foreign-registered vehicles, broken down as above, and indicate the proportion that these represent of a) penalties issued and b) penalties unpaid/enforced.

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

I have provided details within the attached spreadsheet of all offences that have not been finalised as a Fixed Penalty. They have either been passed back to the officer to prepare summons file or sent to the courts for fine enforcement.

We do not hold information as to what has happened to them in the court process so cannot answer how many remain uncollected.

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The proportion they represent as a total of FPN offences is: 2007 20%

2008 18.9%

2009 13.1%

In relation to foreign registered vehicles. We would have to enquire on each offence individually to ascertain vehicle registration. There are approx. 200,000 offences over the 3 year period and I would estimate it would take 1-2 minutes per check. That clearly would exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit is defined in the Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004, which is covered by statutory Instrument Number 3244 of 2004. Furthermore, Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows a public authority to refuse to respond to a request for information where the cost of compliance would exceed the appropriate limit as defined by the above mentioned regulations.