ACPO/NPCC Speed Enforcement Policy Guidelines were of 10%+2 mph. What is the legally acceptable limit allowed for 30mph speed limit infringement

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Dear Association of Police and Crime Commissioners,

The ACPO/NPCC Speed Enforcement Policy Guidelines allowed for 10%+2 mph. Sussex Police start enforcement activities, if a driver is detected of speeding, at 36 mph for the 30 mph limit. Is this legally correct? What would APCC advise, given that the ACPO, is now defunct, so presumably its guidelines are too?

ESCC measure speed at the 10%+2 mph. This makes it next to impossible for the Police to agree to enforce the legal speed limit of 30 mph, as the data provided by the council doesn't necessarily provide a 15 percentile of the total breaking the speed limit as 36 mph or above on very busy roads.

Please can you explain how the 36 mph is acceptable, and indeed the 15% percentile 'rule' which activates Sussex Police enforcement?

Yours faithfully,

Stephanie Watson

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Gregory Lake left an annotation ()

You are simply citing guidelines, so any deviation cannot be viewed as being illegal as legislation doesn't feature in any threshold based decisions made by constabularies.

Until NPCC publish guidelines that supersede that provided by ACPO, the latter still applies.

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