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<p>The responsibility for the enforcement of criminal law, including traffic offences,
is a matter for the Police who work under Home Office guidance. Decisions on how the
Police deploy resources is a matter for the Police and Crime Commissioners and the
Chief Constables for each police force.</p><p> </p><p>The detailed statistics on prosecutions
and convictions for motoring offences between 2010 and 2017 have been fairly stable.
However there has been an increase in Police using education courses under the National
Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) from 467,601 courses in 2010 to 1,445,817
in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The National Speed Awareness Course impact evaluation, published
in 2017, found that participation in the course was more effective at preventing speed
reoffending than fines and penalty points over a period of 3 years following the initial
offer to attend. The National Speed Awareness Course is now offered by most police
forces in England and Wales.</p><p>In March 2018, we provided a grant of £370,000
to PACTS (Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety) to run a competition
to encourage the development of mobile evidential breath testing instruments which
will meet the Home Office type approval requirements. Phase 2 of this competition
closes at the end of June 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The DfT has recently invested £100,000
to support the digital capacity of the police to enable them to handle dash and helmet
cam evidence in respect of road traffic offences.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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