Available information on the number of motoring offences dealt with by official police action in England and Wales from 1997 to 2005 (latest available) is given in the following table.
2006 data will be available later this year.
Number of offences Police force area 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Avon and Somerset 167,200 185,600 192,000 166,700 147,100 170,500 229,700 219,500 183,900 Bedfordshire 79,400 76,100 47,400 56,400 54,900 75,900 103,500 90,500 90,600 Cambridgeshire 78,300 69,800 69,300 61,800 58,000 66,500 72,700 53,900 75,000 Cheshire 80,000 90,600 81,100 74,300 72,400 70,400 87,100 109,500 82,800 Cleveland 80,400 92,200 81,100 85,300 76,800 84,100 74,600 65,200 59,300 Cumbria 58,200 57,400 44,600 34,000 32,500 30,400 52,300 59,000 53,700 Derbyshire 97,700 107,100 105,800 98,200 96,600 139,900 154,300 108,500 80,800 Devon and Cornwall 198,900 192,200 185,500 187,700 166,100 182,000 234,700 231,700 172,800 Dorset 93,300 84,800 88,400 97,400 87,200 71,600 112,300 116,000 125,700 Durham 43,700 50,500 54,200 58,400 58,000 52,800 42,200 36,400 31,200 Essex 193,800 157,600 191,200 219,200 268,000 299,800 138,400 150,500 173,300 Gloucestershire 73,800 79,600 72,100 72,700 70,800 65,500 64,800 57,500 54,100 Greater Manchester 449,200 426,000 373,800 366,400 338,000 308,000 316,000 309,800 298,500 Hampshire 205,800 207,300 202,800 150,100 159,200 145,800 150,200 150,000 143,200 Hertfordshire 115,600 94,900 113,500 102,500 102,200 93,100 88,600 125,900 112,900 Humberside 75,700 78,100 78,600 89,400 80,300 73,900 91,600 122,400 119,500 Kent 149,200 140,700 113,200 80,600 80,300 97,400 126,300 147,600 128,200 Lancashire 227,700 223,300 211,300 195,000 173,200 294,200 324,600 170,100 151,500 Leicestershire 125,000 132,400 132,800 115,300 116,700 131,200 157,200 112,200 49,600 Lincolnshire 78,700 85,500 79,500 85,400 87,700 82,500 95,600 105,200 98,400 London, City of 34,300 34,400 30,600 29,200 24,600 28,500 29,200 33,100 33,000 Merseyside 196,600 197,700 179,000 127,400 108,800 98,700 98,200 99,300 111,700 Metropolitan Police 583,800 549,300 476,600 503,600 436,100 428,500 574,300 574,800 437,400 Norfolk 75,700 67,500 69,200 57,900 61,800 61,300 75,500 65,300 61,700 Northamptonshire 65,400 69,100 63,300 118,500 106,500 78,400 87,000 92,900 85,700 Northumbria 202,900 202,200 214,400 203,500 227,900 214,800 216,800 244,300 176,200 North Yorkshire 70,100 65,700 61,000 50,200 48,600 39,700 37,800 43,200 38,300 Nottinghamshire 106,900 106,200 90,100 101,400 90,600 89,200 108,500 110,600 103,700 South Yorkshire 144,000 137,000 124,700 120,100 130,200 115,200 148,000 134,600 147,000 Staffordshire 140,300 124,100 105,500 88,900 64,600 75,600 99,600 105,300 112,200 Suffolk 61,300 69,400 76,400 66,400 65,700 66,900 79,600 109,100 94,800 Surrey 62,200 65,000 63,800 66,800 68,200 61,000 53,000 44,300 59,800 Sussex 220,800 206,500 177,900 196,900 138,100 112,000 146,900 118,800 142,600 Thames Valley 210,400 225,900 196,800 205,600 269,200 231,300 233,700 217,900 213,600 Warwickshire 61,800 63,800 62,400 52,400 55,400 75,600 103,100 91,300 84,400 West Mercia 104,300 107,600 105,400 99,900 101,000 97,400 141,200 114,400 120,400 West Midlands 376,700 364,500 300,800 256,300 228,100 257,500 304,900 320,600 273,100 West Yorkshire 250,800 249,600 237,200 227,600 204,100 205,000 266,900 316,400 269,100 Wiltshire 66,200 76,700 70,200 72,300 67,100 80,100 92,800 97,000 101,500 Dyfed-Powys 56,800 59,000 61,800 60,000 53,300 64,100 50,500 39,200 43,000 Gwent 67,600 67,800 58,900 71,900 63,200 51,500 53,600 49,900 44,800 North Wales 68,200 63,100 62,500 68,300 65,400 95,000 168,300 111,100 126,100 South Wales 237,400 250,400 228,400 251,300 254,900 251,300 256,500 240,600 224,400 England and Wales 6,136,100 6,054,200 5,635,100 5,493,200 5,259,400 5,414,100 6,142,600 5,915,400 5,389,500 1 Includes written warnings, VDRS notices, fixed penalty notices, court proceedings. Notes: 1. It is known that for some police force areas, the reporting of court proceedings in particular those relating to summary motoring offences may be less than complete. 2. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their limitations are taken into account when those data are used.