E-scooters confiscated by the MPS from January to March 2021 & 2022
Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.22.024340
I note you seek access to the following information:
I'm looking into e scooter accidents and police action to reduce them.
Please could you provide figures for:
1) The number of e-scooters confiscated by your force from 01/01/2022 until 31/03/2022, and for the same period in 2021.
2) The number of accidents logged by your force in these time periods which involved the word 'e scooter'.
3) The number of fatalities logged by your force due to collisions involving e scooters in these time periods.
If you are able to provide details on the above, such as reasons for confiscation and any other information about any accidents logged, that would be much appreciated too - but understand this might make the process too lengthy/costly so no worries if not.
Decision
I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full.
Please find below information pursuant to your request above.
Q1 - The number of e-scooters confiscated by your force from 1/1/22 until 31/3/22, and for the same period in 2021.
MO11 – LDSS Information:
1. This information only concerns property presented to LDSS staff and entered onto the ePMS system.
2. All items booked onto ePMS in the requested periods 01/01/2021 to 31/03/2021 and 01/01/2022 to 31/03/2022.
3. Results are from property category: Pedal Cycles (2F) Sub-Category: Powered Cycles/Scooters (400) therefore not solely e-Scooters alone.
4. Includes all categories apart from Transferred as these will have been booked into a different store and therefore would be duplications.
5. The supplied information includes all items booked in under our form 66 process which relates to property concerned in crime & through the custody system as prisoner property. It doesn’t include any items recorded in the book 89, which relates to property found abandoned in the street
| Year/Month | Crime | Related | 66(S) - | Custody (D) – | Prisoner | Property | Total |
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Jan | Feb | Mar | ||
| 2021 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 30 |
| 2022 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 59 |
| Total | 14 | 13 | 18 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 89 |
| ePMS Reason | Jan 2021 | Jan 2022 | Feb 2021 | Feb 2022 | Mar 2021 | Mar 2022 | TOTAL |
| ABH | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Destruction | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Drug Offences | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Drugs Possession | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Drugs Supply | 1 | 1 | |||||
| GBH | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Investigation | 8 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 34 |
| Major Crime | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Non-Crime Investigation | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Not Known | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Road Accident | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Robbery | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Serious Crime | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Theft | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Volume Crime | 1 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 30 | |
| 14 | 12 | 4 | 24 | 12 | 23 | 89 |
MO11- VRES Information:
Please see the below response from VRES. This is separate from the data provided by MO11 LDSS
This information is supplied subject to the following data caveats:
1. In vehicle recovery we general either seize a vehicle or remove / recover it. These are two (2) terms used in legislation detailing vehicle recovery. Nearly all of the e-Scooters that we recover will have been seized under S.165A Road Traffic Act (RTA) 1988. However there are other e-Scooters that have either been seized, removed or both under other legislation. The term “confiscated” although not immediately relevant to vehicle recovery does have a definition of “to seize or take with authority”. In light of this we would classify all seized and removed vehicles as falling into this definition.
2. The data has been taken from our car pound computer system called the Easy Link Vehicle Information System (ELVIS). This is a live system and as such records are subject to review and change. Therefore data analysis over time can produce different results.
3. We have removed those records which relate to cancelled recovery requests.
4. The data provided covers the periods 01/01/2021 – 31/03/2021 and 01/01/2022 – 31/03/2022.
| Category | Jan-21 | Feb-21 | Mar-21 | Total |
| S.165A RTA 1988 | 100 | 127 | 182 | 409 |
| Other | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 100 | 129 | 183 | 412 |
| Category | Jan-22 | Feb-22 | Mar-22 | Total |
| S.165A RTA 1988 | 118 | 90 | 97 | 305 |
| Other | 0 | 42 | 3 | 45 |
| Total | 118 | 132 | 100 | 350 |
MPS Traffic Prosecutions Information:
Q2 - The number of accidents logged by your force in these time periods which involved the word 'e scooter'.
Q3 - The number of fatalities logged by your force due to collisions involving e scooters in these time periods.
Please see details below regarding data located on collisions with E-Scooters for Jan to Mar 2021 and 2022:
| 2021 E-Scooter Injury Collisions | |||
| Most Serious Severity | January | February | March |
| Fatal | |||
| Serious | 1 | ||
| Slight | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| 2022 E-Scooter Injury Collisions | |||
| Most Serious Severity | January | February | March |
| Fatal | 1 | ||
| Serious | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Slight | 1 | 6 | 3 |