WEST MERCIA EVIDENCE · SELECTED PUBLIC FINDING
West Mercia raised 3,664 court cases for failing to provide driver details in 2025.
NoticeReady analysis shows the reported total doubled in one year and was 132.6 percent above 2023. The disclosure is limited to speed limit offences and describes cases raised, not convictions or MS90 endorsements.
The finding that matters
West Mercia's reported failure to provide court cases grew substantially faster than its combined NIP and Section 172 document volume.
The force reported 166,182 combined NIP and Section 172 documents for alleged speeding offences in 2025. That was 42.4 percent above 2023. Over the same period, cases raised for failing to provide driver details increased by 132.6 percent.
West Mercia's reported failure to provide driver details cases.
Exactly double the force's equivalent 2024 measure.
NoticeReady calculation using the same annual measure.
NIP and Section 172 documents for alleged speeding offences.
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What the disclosure establishes
Established
- The figures were supplied for alleged speed limit offences.
- West Mercia uses a combined NIP and Section 172 document to request driver details.
- The force reported 3,664 court cases raised for failing to provide driver details in 2025.
- Eligible camera cases could use an online nomination route throughout 2023 to 2025.
Not established
- How many cases resulted in a conviction or MS90 endorsement.
- Whether the annual court cases arose from notices issued in the same year.
- Why the court case measure doubled in 2025.
- Whether a particular notice, reminder or prosecution is valid.
- A reliable average time between nomination and a later notice.
Why the reminder figures are not an outcome rate
The reminder series moved sharply between years. West Mercia reported fewer reminders than court cases in 2025. That alone proves the annual reminder and court measures cannot be treated as a single cohort moving through a simple funnel.
Different issue dates, case stages, reminder eligibility and reporting rules may affect the totals. NoticeReady therefore does not divide reminders into cases or present the result as a prosecution rate.
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Source: West Mercia Police, FOI reference HRC0025845/26. The request was received by the force on 14 August 2026 and clarified to cover alleged speed limit offences.
The one year change compares the force's 2025 and 2024 court case measures. The longer change compares 2025 with 2023, calculated as the difference divided by the 2023 figure, multiplied by 100 and rounded to one decimal place.
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West Mercia states that not every camera speeding case is eligible for online access. Eligible recipients can use the West Mercia Police Public Access System ↗ with the details on their notice. The information duty is set out in section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 ↗.
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