How much income has been accrued from 2018/19 to 2020/21

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.025581

I note you seek access to the following information:

Earlier this month I sent the following Freedom of Information act Request to you:

In each of the last three financial years (18/19) (19/20) and (20/21) please state how much income has been accrued as a result of
(a) police issuing fixed penalty notices to motorists and
(b) motorists paying for driving training education courses which were offered as an alternative to a Fixed Penalty Notice.

NOTE: By accrued I mean how much money will motorists have had to spend to pay fines or to register for courses because of offences committed and administrated by your force.

I should now like to amend the request as I now realise that you may not know exactly how much money is obtained from motorists from the issuing of fixed penalty notices or Driver Training Courses. So could my amended request please ask for:

1. In each of the last three financial years (18/19) (19/20) and (20/21) please state that as a result of committing a motoring offence in your authority how much many
(a) fixed penalty notices fines were accepted by motorists and
(b) how many drivers accepted places on driving training education courses which were offered as an alternative to a Fixed Penalty Notice fine.

2. During this three year period what was the financial penalty for
(a) a Fixed Penalty Notice and
(b) the cost of enrolling on a driver training course.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.

Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

Q1 - In each of the last three financial years (18/19) (19/20) and (20/21) please state that as a result of committing a motoring offence in your authority how much many
(a) fixed penalty notices fines were accepted by motorists and
(b) how many drivers accepted places on driving training education courses which were offered as an alternative to a Fixed Penalty Notice fine.

Please see the attached spreadsheet for data pursuant to the above questions.

The data presented is the total number of Camera Offences Paid Confirmed and Traffic Offence Report (TOR) for Question (a); and Retraining Courses completed for Question (b) for the date range 2018/2019, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021.

Q2 - During this three year period what was the financial penalty for
(a) a Fixed Penalty Notice and
(b) the cost of enrolling on a driver training course.

a) A Fixed Penalty was a £100 fine and 3 penalty points

b) The cost of a course is dependent on the individual course provider the driver chose to book their course with. The MPS does not hold this information. The National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) website has information relating to course costs.