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Dear Mr Cluley
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NOs: West Mercia Police 12573 and Warwickshire Police 12574
I write in connection with your requests for information which were received on 12th September 2019. Please find below the responses to your requests for West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police information:
I am writing to you to request some information I need for an article I'm writing about number plate offences. I have tried to find the statistics I need online with little luck so I'm contacting each constabulary in the UK in order to compile my own list of results. What I would like to know is how many people were fined in 2018 for offences related to the display of their own number plate, whether it be obscured or illegally spaced or displayed in a way not permitted by law. I do not need to know the number of number plate thefts, nor the number of instances in which registrations were illegally swapped. I shall approach each constabulary throughout the UK as I would like separate results for each area before totalling the number of offences throughout the country.
REPLY:
I can confirm that your request has now been processed and my response is below.
West Mercia Police 12573 – FOI-5758-19-2200-000
Vehicle Registration Offences 2018 |
|
|
|
Offence |
Number of notices paid |
Drive a vehicle when the registration mark fails to conform with regulations |
59 |
Drive a vehicle with registration mark obscured / indistinguishable |
4 |
Drive vehicle / vehicle and trailer no rear registration plate - registered after 30/09/38 |
7 |
Drive vehicle no front registration plate - registered after 30/09/38 |
29 |
Keep a vehicle when registration mark fails to conform with the regulations |
6 |
Keep vehicle no front registration plate - registered after 30/09/38 |
3 |
Total |
108 |
Warwickshire Police 12574 – FOI-5757-19-2300-000
Vehicle Registration Offences 2018 |
|
|
|
Offence |
Number of notices paid |
Contravene regs prescribed as applying under s.59(2)(a) |
1 |
Drive a vehicle when the registration mark fails to conform with regulations |
17 |
Drive vehicle / vehicle and trailer no rear registration plate - registered after 30/09/38 |
2 |
Drive vehicle no front registration plate - registered after 30/09/38 |
8 |
Keep a vehicle when registration mark fails to conform with the regulations |
4 |
Total |
32 |