FOI 386/25 CD10 Offences
Enquiry Reference: 386- 25
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
Please provide data for the last three calendar years: 2022, 2023 and 2024, with a monthly breakdown where possible.
Specifically, I would like to request the following:
Q1. The total number of cautions issued under the CD10 offence, broken down by month and year.
Q2. The total number of fixed penalties issued under the CD10 offence, broken down by month and year.
Q3. The total number of prosecutions initiated under the CD10 offence, broken down by month and year.
Q4. A full list or breakdown of all offences recorded under CD10 during this period.
Q5. Where available, any accompanying officer notes, incident descriptors, or free-text fields associated with CD10 offences.
Q6. If possible, please indicate whether any of the CD10 offences were related to driving with pets in the vehicle (e.g. where the presence or behaviour of a pet may have contributed to the lack of control). This could include any relevant details recorded in officer notes or free-text fields.
Q7. Please indicate the number of fines issued under the CD10 offence during each period and where held, the total revenue generated from these fines, broken down by each month of each calendar year.
I would appreciate it if this information could be provided in a digital format, such as an excel spreadsheet or CSV file (if possible), for ease of analysis.
* Further to my recent Freedom of Information request regarding the offence code CD10 – driving without due care and attention, I would like to provide the following clarifications to assist with processing:
Offence Scope
Please note that I am requesting information specifically and solely related to the CD10 offence code, which refers to driving without due care and attention.
Fixed Penalty Notices / Conditional Offers (Q2) If your force does not issue Fixed Penalty Notices but instead issues conditional offers (comprising a fine and points on the licence), please confirm this within your response and include these figures under Q2.
Prosecutions Initiated (Q3)
For Q3, I am seeking data on individuals who were referred for court prosecution under CD10, regardless of whether a conviction followed. If available, please also include a breakdown showing how many of those referrals resulted in conviction.
If only one of these figures is held, please provide what is available and indicate what the figure represents.
Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) places two duties on public authorities. Unless exemptions apply, the first duty at Section 1 (1) (a) is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held. The second duty at Sec 1(1) (b) is to disclose information that has been confirmed as being held. Where exemptions are relied upon s17 of FOIA requires that we provide the applicant with a notice which: a) states that fact b) specifies the exemption(s) in question and c) states (if that would not otherwise be apparent) why the exemption applies.
Having made enquiries within the Force due to the nature of our recording systems the information requested, is not in an easily retrievable format. Our information retrieval process generally relies on a computer ran report which captures any information recorded upon the surface of a record. Where relevant information is held deeper in a record a manual assessment is usually required to retrieve that information. In this instance for Q 3 a manual search would be required through all records to identify if the case was progressed to court or not. And Q7 –again a manual search would be needed to check each offence to see whether they accepted a course, took the conditional offer, or were put to court, all which have different monetary penalties.
The cost of providing you with the information is above the amount to which we are legally required to respond and this falls under the exemption of 'Compliance exceeding the appropriate limit' covered by Section 12 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and as such this work could not be undertaken.
Therefore, please treat this as a refusal notice under S17(1) of the Freedom of information Act.
In accordance with Section 16 of the Act we have a duty to provide advice and assistance however on this occasion we cannot offer any suggestion on how you could refine this part of your request.
As a gesture of goodwill and outside of the Act we are providing you with the below information which was retrieved before the it was realised that this would take in excess of the time stipulated.
Please find below data covering Questions 1 and 2 – we issue conditional offers so the figures are the same for both questions.
Questions 4, 5 & 6 – unable to answer as we do not have this type of information on the tickets, they just state “driving without due care and attention”, they do not gave a breakdown of the actual offence.
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2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
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JANUARY |
11 |
5 |
26 |
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FEBRUARY |
13 |
8 |
29 |
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MARCH |
10 |
9 |
30 |
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APRIL |
8 |
9 |
40 |
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MAY |
11 |
9 |
33 |
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JUNE |
6 |
18 |
30 |
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JULY |
5 |
19 |
22 |
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AUGUST |
12 |
24 |
41 |
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SEPTEMBER |
8 |
14 |
28 |
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OCTOBER |
14 |
15 |
35 |
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NOVEMBER |
12 |
16 |
46 |
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DECEMBER |
8 |
22 |
46 |
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TOTAL |
118 |
168 |
406 |
Having made enquiries within the Force above is all the information we hold. Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.
Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.
If you are not satisfied with this response or any actions taken in dealing with your request, you have the right to request an independent internal review of your case under our review procedure. The Freedom of Information Code of Practice (see below link) states that a request for internal review should be made within 20 working days of the date on this response or 40 working days if extenuating circumstances to account for the delay can be evidenced. Public authorities are not obliged to accept internal reviews after this date.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/freedom-of-information-code-of-practice
Yours sincerely
Information Rights Decision Maker