Exhaust restrictions - 333/19

Date Responded 19 March 2019

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

I would like to know how many prosecutions there have been relating to motorcycles breaching the exhaust noise restrictions by Northumbria Police over the past five years (January 2014 - end February 2019).

Please could you give the information in a table showing:

– what the offence was

– the date that the incident happened

– the action that was taken against the individual in question

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is not held by Northumbria Police. There have been no prosecutions in relation to Motor Cycles breaching exhaust noise restrictions.

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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