Crime or incident reports involving mopeds with L plates

​​​Request 736722722

Question 1: Please provide the number of crime or incident reports recorded by your force in which mopeds with L plates are specifically mentioned, for each of the past five calendar years, please provide the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. 

Question 2: Where available, please provide a breakdown by:

i.) Offence type of crime or incident reports recorded by your force in which mopeds with L plates are specifically mentioned for:

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• Theft

• - please provide both the proportion and number of the offences for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. 

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• Assault

• - please provide both the proportion and number of the offences for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. 

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• Dangerous driving

• - please provide both the proportion and number of the offences for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. 

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• Driving without a licence -

• please provide both the proportion

• and number of the offences for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

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ii.) Whether the moped involved in the offences relating to Question 2, i.) was recorded as a suspect vehicle, a stolen vehicle, or otherwise involved:

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• Suspect vehicle

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• proportion and number of records for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. 

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• Stolen vehicle

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• proportion and number of records for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. 

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• Otherwise involved

• - please provide both the proportion and number of records for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. 

Response

1) Please see Table (1) which provides the number of incident reports involving mopeds with learner plates recorded over the past five years.

Freedom of Information response 736722722 - Attachment.pdf​

2) i) In 2021, one incident was recorded involving an individual driving while disqualified, and another related to dangerous driving. No records were found for the remaining offences.

ii) There are no records indicating that any of these offences involved a suspect vehicle, a stolen vehicle, or were otherwise flagged in this context.​