New guidelines for allowing offenders to attend speed awareness courses are
The thresholds under which the courses will operate have been laid
down by ACPO and are at the prosecution threshold of 10% +2 mph to
a maximum of 10% +9 mph over the statutory limit. However it is a
bandwidth within which a police force may consider diverting an offender
and this does not remove local decision-making using the attendant
circumstances which may well warrant an alternative method of disposal,
such as taking no further action, a warning letter, conditional offer a
fixed penalty, or summons.
However, they are just that, guidelines. It is possible to be prosecuted for 32 in a 30.
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