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Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/008041/I
Version Date: 01/05/2025
I would like to request the following information for the last three years in which the information is available.
The total number of Fixed Penalty Notice and court fines which were given for licence plate offences, specifically the offence related to the Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 under section 11.
The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information.
Data Source
VPFPO Pentip Fixed penalty Notices Data
Data Processing:
COMBINED Notices January 2015 to February 2025
Filtered on Date: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2024
Filtered on offence group: Vehicle licence/registration plate/MOT offences
Disposal Type: Fixed Penalty Notice
Filtered on the text:
VE94149 Keep vehicle - fail to display front plate
VE94148 Drive vehicle - fail to display front plate
VE94134 Drive vehicle with registration mark not conforming
VE94150 Drive vehicle - fail to display rear plate
VE94135 Keep vehicle with registration mark not conforming
VE94047 Keep vehicle registration mark not easily readable / obscured / indistinguishable
VE94151 Keep vehicle - fail to display rear plate
VE94152 Drive vehicle registration mark not easily readable / obscured / indistinguishable
VE94130 Contravene/fail to comply with regulation 24 Assignment of registration marks by motor dealers
TR18009 Cause / use / permit registered trailer displaying incorrect registration mark
VE94128 User an incorrectly registered vehicle
Caveats/Limitations
Data on court fines is not held by the Force, please submit a request to His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service for this information.
|
Offence details |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
Total |
|
TR18009 Cause / use / permit registered trailer displaying incorrect registration mark |
0 |
5 |
3 |
8 |
|
VE94047 Keep vehicle registration mark not easily readable / obscured / indistinguishable |
30 |
4 |
7 |
41 |
|
VE94128 User an incorrectly registered vehicle |
0 |
0 |
5 |
5 |
|
VE94130 Contravene/fail to comply with regulation 24 Assignment of registration marks by motor dealers |
1 |
6 |
6 |
13 |
|
VE94134 Drive vehicle with registration mark not conforming |
178 |
169 |
144 |
491 |
|
VE94135 Keep vehicle with registration mark not conforming |
24 |
19 |
227 |
270 |
|
VE94148 Drive vehicle - fail to display front plate |
73 |
56 |
37 |
166 |
|
VE94149 Keep vehicle - fail to display front plate |
5 |
4 |
3 |
12 |
|
VE94150 Drive vehicle - fail to display rear plate |
53 |
27 |
40 |
120 |
|
VE94151 Keep vehicle - fail to display rear plate |
4 |
3 |
1 |
8 |
|
VE94152 Drive vehicle registration mark not easily readable / obscured / indistinguishable |
11 |
34 |
18 |
63 |
|
Total |
379 |
327 |
491 |
1197 |