5th June 2025 Led by David Gauke, a former Conservative Justice Minister (2018-19), the Independent Sentencing Review has published their final report with 48 recommendations. The first time such a review has been conducted in England and Wales, it was necessitated by the prison crisis. Prisons are full, very expensive (prison place costs over £53 …
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AVZ Blog - 15th April 2025 Transparency is important. Without it, you do not know what is happening and that includes what to criticise or congratulate. And transparency is especially needed with traffic law enforcement as it is often lacking. Whilst the Home Office publishes crime statistics on a monthly basis and at a local …
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February 2025 To download this briefing as a pdf click here The tables (Excel file) linked to this briefing can be viewed here Speed enforcement has greatly increased in London in recent years but is it happening on the right roads? AVZ has analysed the statistics on London speeding offences and summarised them in a …
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10th February 2025 Key points Road deaths increased in the last year in London whilst levels of enforcement have not. Almost half of speeding offences were cancelled while careless driving and using a mobile phone offences decreased. The Mayor is consulting on his police and crime plan for the next four years. It includes two …
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9th Oct 2024 To download this briefing as a pdf click here Key points Police have stated that the public submitted 150,000 videos of unsafe driving in the past year. In the West Midlands, submissions have increased over 50-fold, from 208 in 2017 to over 11,000 in the last 12 months. Some 90% of submissions …
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1 Aug 2024 Key points Perspective of cycling campaigners presented to NPCC Road Crime Reporting Working Group. Tim Wall, Pushbikes (Birmingham) and AVZ Roads Policing Campaigners, spoke about the importance of citizen engagement, the unique experience of cyclists and key calls from cycling campaigners as to how to improve the effectiveness of road crime reporting. …
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9th July 2024 To download this briefing as a pdf click here Key points Using the provisional reported Killed and Seriously Injured (KSI) casualty data for London in 2023, this briefing highlights how: Pedestrians and cyclists account for over half of reported KSIs (59%). Cars are involved in almost two-thirds of reported serious injuries (SIs) …
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25 June 2024 To download this briefing as a pdf click here Key points Greater Manchester’s consultation on its Vision Zero Draft Action Plan 2024-2027 includes asking what appropriate sentencing for serious road traffic offences looks like. Here Action Vision Zero (AVZ) highlights the sentencing statistics recently published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to …
17 June 2024 To download this briefing as a pdf click here Key points This draft action plan contains no concrete actions and asks for feedback on what they describe as “some actions for Greater Manchester may include”. The target is to have zero road deaths and life changing injuries by 2040. It is based …
16th May 2024 To download this briefing as a pdf click here Key points The Sentencing Council is consulting on their first Disqualification Guideline. Bans (disqualifications) are a key sanction for reducing road danger, with our penalty points system based on the deterrent effect of bans. The draft Guideline summarises existing policy but offers no …
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