It would be helpful, DVD, to have your input on the implications of this document.

If I understand correctly, it does not cover speed cameras. However, the speeds which qualify the offender for speed awareness courses/fixed penalty/summons may relate to offences detected by speed camera, it seems. (Though I don't think there's anything new here.)

As for the rest of it, it seems to cover only those situations where a police officer is dealing with a speeding offender face-to-face - a situation that seems increasingly rare these days.

Edited by FP on 14/10/2013 at 12:49

I certainly read that, too. However, that wasn't my point.

The parts of the document where clearly an officer is understood to be dealing with a speeding driver face-to-face, and may exercise discretion - even as far as not taking any action at all - doesn't seem to me to apply to a speed camera NIP sent through the post.

As for the table of speed limits and speeds qualifying for different courses of action, that (if I recollect aright) is the same as it has been in the past.

Edited by FP on 14/10/2013 at 14:00

As for the table of speed limits and speeds qualifying for different courses of action, that (if I recollect aright) is the same as it has been in the past.

It npw seems the threshold is [(limit+10%) + 2mph].

I had an idea it used to be [(limit+10%) + 3mph]?

Until recently it was limit+10%+1mph, as it is under the revised guidelines - but this was often referred to as "limit+10%+2mph", erroneously as this is the penalty speed!