Mobile phone driving offences

Freedom of Information Act request number: 2022-159

Version date: 07/03/2022

The Dorset Road Safe Department have provided the following information:

1. In the year 1st January 2020 to 31st December 2020 as well as the year 1st January 2021 to 31st December 2021, how many video or photo submissions of motoring incidents were made to the force by members of the public?

Figures are as follows for the video submissions

01/01/2020 – 31/12/2020 = 642

01/01/2021 – 31/12/2021 = 940

2. In the same two-year period, how many prosecutions were made by your force for drivers using their mobile phone whilst driving/behind the wheel? 

Figures are as follows for Mobile phone offences

01/01/2020 – 31/12/2020 = 185

01/01/2021 – 31/12/2021 = 186 

NB:

Mobile phone data relates to the number of Traffic Offence Reports processed via the Central Ticket Office. These figures do not include cancelled offences. 

3. In the same two-year period, how many prosecutions or fines have been made for driving offences resulting from motorists filming their own driving and posting the footage to social media?

It is not possible to identify if a driving offence results from a motorist filming their own driving and posting the footage to social media without reviewing all offences over a 2 year period