Overview

• Over 600 dangerous driving offences were recorded under Operation Spotlight in July, targeting speeding, impaired driving, phone use and seatbelt breaches.
• The force arrested 328 drivers last month, including 163 for drink-driving and 165 for drug-driving offences.
• Police issued 690 tickets, with 337 for speeding, 277 for failing to wear seatbelts and 76 for mobile phone use at the wheel.
• Operation Spotlight forms part of a UK-wide National Police Chiefs’ Council campaign aimed at cutting serious injuries and deaths through focused enforcement.
• Recent court action underscores the campaign’s deterrence goal, highlighted by Barry Archer’s six-year prison sentence for a 2020 fatal collision.