PSNI statistics detail motoring offences detected by police and handled via fixed penalty notices or speed awareness courses, excluding prosecution referrals. The data covers a six-year period from 2017 to 2022 and is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. Figures were last updated on July 8, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in police-detected motoring offences based on the described time range.
- Compare the use of fixed penalty notices versus speed awareness courses as described enforcement methods.
- Study the volume of offences handled outside the court system based on the exclusion of prosecution referrals.
Strengths
- Covers a six-year time range from 2017 to 2022.
- Explicitly distinguishes between offences handled by fixed penalties, courses, and those referred for prosecution.
- Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- OpenDataNI
- Collection Method
- Produced by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) from statistics on detected motoring offences.
- Time Range
- 2017 - 2022
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:43.652989; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Northern Ireland