Young People Driving without a Licence

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/24/007017/F

 Version Date: 07/10/2024

• Please provide a breakdown of the number of young people (aged 16 and under) who have been caught driving without a licence in your force area for the last five financial years, broken down by year. (01 April – 31st March, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024)
  
  •           Please provide, if possible, the figures for each age group where applicable i.e. nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen etc, also broken down by gender.
  
  •           Please provide, if possible, the outcome of each case.
  
  

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.

Time Frame for data:        

01/04/2019 - 31/03/2024   

Data Source:          

Force Crime Recording System Niche   

Data Processing: 

QlikSense report Occurrence People Links (all) filtered on     

Occurrence date: 01/04/2019 - 31/03/2024        

Person or Organisation: Person   

Suspect or Offender: Yes  

Age at Time: 0 - 16 

Offence Description:          

Permit use of motor vehicle with no insurance 

Use a motor vehicle on a road / public place without third party insurance 

Data extracted to excel      

Please note:

• We have recently migrated to a new records management system and as a result of this migration, (and other unforeseen factors), data on non-notifiable offences is not available in its entirety. We are unable to provide a timeline for resolution at this point.

• Data is reliant upon accurate recording of suspect/ offender's age at the time.

• Fixed penalty notice data has not been provided as ages are not recorded on the system for this particular outcome.