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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: HRC0029174/26
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 7th September 2026. Please find below the response to your request:
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Can you provide the number on how many cases you have had of someone "driving with an illegal number plate" in West Mercia between in September 2025 and August 2026?
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West Mercia Police can only provide the number of offences that are recorded on our recording system, so this won’t include matters where the officers have issued a warning at the roadside, or matters that may have been reported to police but did not result in a traffic offence report being completed. To try to obtain these would exceed the fees limit.
For the offence of ‘drive a motor vehicle when the vehicle registration number fails to conform to regulations’ we have 328 offences recorded for matters dated between September 2025 to September 2026.