Speed Limit Exemptions for Police Drivers
Keywords
Impose, Restrictions, Driver, Trained, Exceed, Speed, Limit, Lawful, Exemptions, Policy, Procedure, Documents, Legislation, Law, Road, Traffic, Regulation, Policing.
Publication Number
PUB 1455
FOI Reference Number
17161
Request Title
Speed Limit Exemptions for Police Drivers
Date Range
N/A
Information Requested
1. Do you impose restrictions on how much a police driver trained to standard level can exceed the speed limit when making lawful use of exemptions?
2. If yes to question 1 please provide details of the limits imposed.
3. Please provide the relevant policy and procedure documents that detail how a standard level driver may make lawful use of speed exemptions.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Part Disclosure with Section 21 Exemption
Information Correct as at
16 June 2022
Date of Disclosure
12 July 2022
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 17161 Response
FOI Duty
First Duty – Essex Police does hold information relating to all of your request.
Second Duty – see below exemption and information
Fact – see below
Exemption - Section 21
Reasoning – Section 21 of the Act (Information Reasonably Accessible by Other Means) states that information is exempt information if it is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under Section 1 of the FOIA. Section 21 is an absolute exemption and where information falls within the scope of an absolute exemption, a public authority is not obliged to communicate it to an applicant and is also not obliged to comply with the duty to confirm or deny the existence of the information requested.
Caveat: The statements and links are correct as at 16/06/2022.
Outside of the act and in an effort to assist we can provide the following:
This matter is defined by Legislation. The Law does not define that it relates solely to Standard Level drivers. The law provides an exemption if the vehicle is being used for Policing purposes. Sec 87 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 refers. Please see the attached links below which provide the Essex Police stance:
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (legislation.gov.uk)
Police driving | College of Policing
Accessing information | Essex Police